Umair Haque, Director of Havas Media Lab, and one of my favorite troublemakers. His recent article, titled Is Your Business Useless?, provides a great framework for thinking about the value of organizations and enterprises of all sizes. Good reading for people considering new ventures. As Guy Kawasaki says, “Tell me how you make meaning in [...]
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Useless Businesses and the Damage Done
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Models, Opinion
Tags: LinkedIn
Who Suffers Most?
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Opinion
There are many versions of the old adage, “When the economy catches a cold, the poor have pneumonia.”
A poll on LinkedIn asking about business spending patterns shows a wide range of responses to how much the economic downturn is effecting spending patterns (self-reported) of businesses. At last look, 100% of those in large enterprises reported [...]
Tags: Business and Economy·economic downturn·economy·LinkedIn·necessities·old adage·pneumonia·recession·risk of failure·Small business·small businesses·socialism
Sales Training for Entrepreneurs
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Entrepreneurial Culture, Publication
My father always told me that every job is a sales job. That’s at least a little bit true, but in my experience, most entrepreneurs are a little disconnected from their inner
Harvard Business Review offered a special issue on Sales in 2006 (Vol 84, Issue 7/8) that included a number of articles that offers a [...]
Tags: closure rate·Clotaire Rapaille·coping skills·Entrepreneur·g clotaire rapaille·Harvard Business Review·huge market·initial offerings·LinkedIn·Marketing and Advertising·negative image·Sales·sales job·sales person·Salesmanship·zebras
Farewell to a Great Entrepreneur: John Patrick ‘Packy’ Hyland, Sr.
May 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Entrepreneurial Culture, Opinion
Entrepreneurship is the art form of organization development. All art forms are about synthesizing or transforming or juxtaposing objects from one realm and infusing them with the life forces of talent, vision, and craft to create something new and quite different from anything that has existed before – something with a life of it’s own [...]
Tags: Cleveland·dazed and confused·efficiency gains·Hyland·john carrol·john patrick·LinkedIn·organization development·packy·passion·profit margins·rhinoceros success·unqualified success
How to hire a small staff
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Entrepreneurial Culture, Free Resources
Jim Collins has offered me no end of simple ways to describe complex issues to my consulting clients. His book are full of solid wisdom. I’m sure his next book will be no different, but for the moment I’m all about this article in the NYT about his methods. Genius – especially his hiring protocol.
Spend [...]
Tags: genius·Good to Great·hiring·Jim Collins·LinkedIn·nyt·organization·protocol·wisdom
Great Venture Article
May 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Business Models, Funding, Resources for New Business
USC has published a very handy article on Tech Transfer and venture. It really applies to most entrepreneurs in many ways.
Some recommendations from the study include:
Understand how to fit into a venture capital fund’s business goals. Venture capital funds
have a fixed life span in which [...]
Tags: academese·acquisition package·blank checks·genuine effort·great venture·LinkedIn·seed stage·stage investments·tech transfer·technology transfer offices·venture·venture capital fund·venture capital funds
My Letter in the New York Times 22 Feb 2009
February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · KOYONO, Opinion
I’m really not much of a fan. I don’t get all weak in the knees over much of anybody. I’ve worked with rock stars, movie stars, billionaires and geniuses and pretty much kept an even keel (I did stammer when I met Neil Young – I really wasn’t prepared to be as impressed as I [...]
Tags: banks·economy·even keel·fandom·Funding·investment·laugh lines·LinkedIn·little ritual·michelle slatalla·moral guidance·morning coffee·NY Times·proud moment·quiet spot·style section·thouroughly
Social Media Links
January 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Free Resources
I’ve been giving a number of talks on strategies that can be used in integrating social networking into a business’s overall communications strategy. These are some of the links from that talk:
Wikipedia list of social media sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
It isn’t comprehensive, but that’s because new site are coming on line all the time. The big ones are [...]
Tags: communications·communications strategy·david pogue·forms of communication·great experiment·LinkedIn·network·new york times·nytimes·social·social networking·tweet·tweets
Chasing the consumer dollars during recessions
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Business Models, Consumer Products, Free Resources, Resources for New Business
McKinsey has published a chart that depicts the changes in spending trends during recessions. The key points here are that consumers will spend a bit less overall but dramatically shift their spending in a number of categories.
The good news here for start-ups is that there are consumers in the market looking to replace their old [...]
Tags: bad time·consumer dollars·consumers spending·home cooking·how to save money·LinkedIn·mckinsey·recession·recessions·spa restaurant·spending habits·spending trends·start ups·start-up