Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2015
Great technology leads to innovative solutions that are possible, but not necessarily great businesses. Rube Goldberg illustrated this principle many years ago in cartoons, but I still find inventors that are creating solutions today looking for a problem. In addition, every solution has to fit into the current political, cultural and economic environment to make it a viable business.
The Next Web
DECEMBER 26, 2015
As new ways of work are evolving, such as the adoption of cross-functional teams, and distributed/virtual work environments, companies need to find new ways to manage employee performance. For nearly everyone working today, annual employee evaluations are as status quo as coffee breaks and bi-weekly paychecks (direct deposited of course). But have you ever wondered what incited this practice in the first place?
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YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 26, 2015
Building a brand is an investment. We’ve all been there, most brands don’t start with investors and I personally, am not rich. But I did have a plan.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 26, 2015
When I played tennis as a teenager, I remember reading The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Tim Gallwey. Near the end of my recent sabbatical + birthday vacation, after almost seven weeks of tennis where I played at least five days a week, I decided to read it again. It held up. Written in 1974, Gallwey uses the concept of Self 1 (the thinking part) and Self 2 (the feeling / doing part).
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
Hunter Walker
DECEMBER 26, 2015
In the wake of NYTimes getting some critical facts wrong about Facebook and terrorism, Dan Gillmor calls on news organizations to adopt the principle of “ it’s ok to out your anonymous source if it turns out they were lying ” [note it’s not clear that the NYTimes was lied to, rather they blame it on their source not having deep understanding of social media and bad reporting].
YFS Magazine
DECEMBER 26, 2015
The golden rule of customer service is to always engage your customers, and social media is a great way to start.
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