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No CMO + listen better = $1 billion company in 2 years. Believe in this.

Lessons of Slack as a company

I wrote about Slack maybe a year ago; at the time, it was essentially a total throw-away post. I had seen something on a business website and decided, “Oh, that sounds interesting.” Broadly, these work applications really interest me —… Continue Reading

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Likability: 13 Traits To Work On

How To Become More Likeable

At the core of most relationships is this idea of likability. Very few people are friends with, or do business with, people they don’t actually like (or generally enjoy the presence of). There is something to be said for the… Continue Reading

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Stephen J. Dubner pushes back on Big Data

Stephen J. Dubner and Big Data

Big Data is one of the more interesting intersection points in recent human history (sorry to oversell that, which I admittedly probably did). Here’s what we know: C-Suite executives value the idea as a concept, but don’t really know exactly… Continue Reading

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You want happier employees? Channel the construction industry.

Construction Industry and Employee Engagement

Three simple tenets that one (perhaps unexpected) industry does well. Continue Reading

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Why do we confuse “productivity” with “face-time” or “seat-time” at office jobs?

Productivity vs. Seat Time At Work

“Productivity” can be achieved anywhere by a person that cares about their work, so why do we pay so much attention to whether they’re in-office? Because everything comes back to control. Continue Reading

Maybe ideation software isn’t helping

Ideation Platforms and Communication

Everywhere you look these days, there seem to be different kinds of tools and software to make it easier to listen to (and subsequently engage) your employees. Often this will be something cloud-based, promising “real-time feedback,” and/or “actionable insights,” etc.… Continue Reading

Valuable content is the job of the entire marketing team

Content Marketing Is Everyone's Responsibility

Here’s what we know, generally-speaking: If you read enough blogs and marketing sites, you’d think content marketing is all the rage. It certainly is in some respects, but 65% of B2C companies and 62% of B2B companies report NOT actually having any… Continue Reading

Be more productive: find, then eliminate, “time sinks”

Time Sinks

If statistics about 80 percent of people reading a headline and only 20 percent (or less) reading the body are true, I’m already ahead of the game on this post — because I feel like the headline is pretty logical,… Continue Reading