Category: Personal information & knowledge management

July 15, 2019

Car salesmen get a bad rap, trying to peddle vehicles while burdened with pop culture-fueled stereotypes as swindlers and lowlifes. Indeed, there are fast-talkers with dubious intentions, but most are just regular folks doing a job. And some are legends. […]

June 10, 2019

It’s probably safe to say that Jeff Bezos attends a lot of meetings. As the CEO of Amazon, founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin, and owner of The Washington Post, he employs hundreds of thousands of people (Amazon alone has […]

May 17, 2019

A house divided cannot stand. It’s as true in life as it is in business. Conflict inside will inevitably lead to conflict outside. It can be a particularly painful experience when people worked so hard to build something great, only […]

April 23, 2019

I’ve trained thousands of leaders globally as part of my executive education work in business strategy, innovation and organizational transformation with universities like USC, the Melbourne Business School, and the Copenhagen Business School. I’ve led leadership development programs for companies […]

April 18, 2019

“What’s really cool is that you can keep updated with your trustee payments online,” the intake specialist at my new bankruptcy attorney’s office told me. I nodded, not sure how else to respond. After finally deciding to file for bankruptcy, […]

January 14, 2019

Back in 2007, when Larry Kim was just a one-man band settling into his usual spot at the Panera Bread in downtown Boston to build WordStream, the last thing on his mind was personal branding. “It just wasn’t a strategy […]

December 18, 2018

When we think about being an “influencer,” we usually think of people speaking from stages, beaming out blog posts to thousands of adoring readers, or racking up millions of followers on Instagram. But what if you could influence someone in […]

November 29, 2018

When looking for content marketing advice, it’s best to have experienced marketers show you the way. How about learning content strategies from someone who’s done it successfully for a big name brand? I recently talked to Netflix’s former CMO, Barry […]

October 4, 2018

I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was 19 and a broke college student at the University of Washington — so broke I had to drop out. I got a job, but still couldn’t pay my rent and […]

September 7, 2018

Red Rocket recently acquired Restaurant Furniture Plus, a B2B ecommerce website selling furniture to restaurants. What made this business different from most of the other businesses I have managed was the fact it was 100 percent a virtual company. The […]