Loved Trainwreck, but …
Saw it on Friday night, when it came out. I honestly think the last movie I saw on the day it came out was one of the Twilight movies, and that was done somewhat ironically. Fun story from that movie,… Continue Reading
One year in Texas. How’s that going (y’all)?
I dragged my feet on this post for a week. My actual one year of pulling into Fort Worth was July 13 (last Monday), and my actual one-year of working where I work now (Virtuoso travel network) was July 15… Continue Reading
Instead of rushing to hire, look at your team
I’ve written before about how headcount is destroying business innovation, and I’m not going to recycle the general themes therein for this thing. I’ll actually try to keep it pretty tight. Let’s begin with a personal story. (I was just… Continue Reading
The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection.
I just watched that TED Talk — it’s titled “Everything we think about addiction is wrong” — this morning. I had seen a few people share it on social since TED released it about a week ago (it’s from a… Continue Reading
How to fix your habits: Personalize them
Great article with Gretchen Rubin (it’s essentially an interview) at Wharton’s website, and it ends with this (the end of interviews tend to be a good summary of everything that went on, right?): There is no one-size-fits-all solution. We’re constantly… Continue Reading
The Shrine of Big Numbers is killing marketing
You can probably figure out what the concept means from the headline. Basically, many people in marketing think about things in terms of the biggest numbers possible, because those are the impressive things you want to report back up a… Continue Reading
What if collaboration hurts productivity?
If you had to make a list of every business buzzword that a top dog/senior executive says in a meeting/presentation, I doubt you’d get very far down the list without hearing “collaboration.” People love to talk about collaboration. It seems… Continue Reading
Future of work: For a team to evolve, the leaders need to evolve
Start here, and start with this: A company used to be able to dominate the competition if it focused on creating an effective group of verticals. But in today’s world, leaders using the network model can quickly outpace those who… Continue Reading