Here’s a solid-ish quote from Mark Twain: “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” Anyone with a brain in their head would realize this was eventually… Continue Reading
I personally feel we should ban the term “lead generation” from marketing and sales discussions, but really … who the hell am I? Many companies try to set up their website or general marketing/sales funnel to “optimize” (buzzword hell) for… Continue Reading
I’ve worked a lot of different places, and had a lot of different bosses, and observed a lot of different senior management teams (and been friends with quite a few), and most of them focus on revenue (and/or growth) first and foremost. This… Continue Reading
I got back from a week in Las Vegas – which is a long time to be there – on Friday night around 11pm. I hung out with my wife for a while, as I barely remembered what she looked like at… Continue Reading
Check out this graphic; I got it from an article on Harvard Business Review about the leadership traits that employees don’t like about their managers: Break this down for a second:
I sometimes understand — don’t per se ‘get it,’ but understand it — when companies could care less about their employees, because oftentimes employees are seen as almost transactional. They come, they do a job, you pay them X-amount of money, and they leave. That’s… Continue Reading
Here’s an interesting post I found this AM on “4 Stories Great Leaders Tell,” and here’s a good quote: The Impact of a Story: A 10-year, 100,000-person study conducted throughout the U.S. and Canada by the O.C. Tanner Institute and HealthStream… Continue Reading
Hola. My name’s Ted Bauer. ‘Tis my blog. I write a lot about organizational behavior, leadership, management, marketing, the future of work, and other assorted topics. Recently I’ve been thinking that it’s pretty cool that random people may stumble across… Continue Reading