Reed Hastings, CEO and Founder of Netflix, was recently named Fortune's Business Person of the Year. He is, in the mold of Tony Hsieh (Zappos), Richard Branson (Virgin, etc.), and Herb Kelleher (Southwest Airlines), truly an entrepreneur and businessperson to emulate. And the Netflix corporate culture one to strive toward. read more. Dave Lavinsky MORE >>

Julius Genachowski, the Chairman of the FCC, recently announced that he would ask the FCC to adopt rules to protect the open Internet at its open meeting on December 21st. We applaud the Chairman's effort, but we worry the proposed framework, as it is currently drafted, will not result in the free and open Internet that is his goal. MORE >>

In a world where we are overwhelmed with data and metrics and key performance indicators and reports and dashboards and. sometimes all it takes to make some sense of all this "mess" is someone stepping up to share a tiny slice of wisdom from their experience. That's my plan for this blog post. Consider yourself fully forewarned! MORE >>

A month ago I received a sales inquiry via email for my  invoicing software package. The prospect asked if we could complete the questions he had attached in a spreadsheet: I will need the attached questions answered in order to proceed as I can’t get them all answered off your website. And that’s when it started to get good. Toxicity. MORE >>

If you know me personally, or even digitally , then you know that I am a physical fitness and athletic enthusiast. find that there is a certain level of determination that is built up by being physically fit and sticking to a regimen. Athletics and exercise are the purest physical expression of true mental discipline that one can find. DON'T. MORE >>