2015 Goal: Reach out to one person in your network per day
Grow your personal brand and use serendipity to find more work. It works, honestly. Continue Reading
Fundamental Explainers
This is my blanket category for the site; it’s an attempt to explain a concept in a deeper way.
Shit, 2014 will probably be the hottest year on record
We should all be legitimately concerned about drought and climate change, but we’re not because — in all honesty — it seems like a very far-off thing, and we’re probably not going to be alive when the worst of it… Continue Reading
CFB Championship Weekend: What are different scenarios for Alabama, TCU, FSU, etc?
The final regular season weekend of college football is upon us, with the Pac-12 Championship Game this evening. Things could go according to plan, or they could become a total mess, like the October 4th weekend this year — which… Continue Reading
Forget “digital natives.” Talk about “mobile natives.”
I would think (hope) that most people in the general marketing field understand that marketing is changing as generations change out — here’s one small example — although I’m not entirely sure marketing always quickly catches up to trends going… Continue Reading
Mike Riley hire: Nebraska, and the media, know nothing about anything
Go and search “Mike Riley” on Twitter. Scroll down past all the various regional outlets, sports websites and Husker fans talking about him. Once you clear that mass of space, find the tweet most recently sent before we all knew… Continue Reading
What do you think is your biggest challenge of the next year or so?
It’s December. That means you get a lot of holiday spirit, but you also get a lot of resolutions and year-end lists and trend-spotting and 2015 predictions and the occasional cool article about why resolutions don’t stick. It’s a cycle,… Continue Reading
The savings rate for Americans under 35 is negative 1.8 percent
This stat is not ideal. Continue Reading
The employee-manager relationship is inherently doomed
If you stopped and thought about the general (because every situation is unique) relationship between employees and their managers, you might honestly think each side was speaking a different language: maybe the employee is coming to work and doing their day-to-day tasks… Continue Reading