Yesterday the Wall Street journal published an article discussing how people are leaving eBay and Yahoo to work at web start-ups: Web Start-Ups Lure Executives At eBay, Yahoo (subscription may be required). Here are some of the reasons given for these departures (all emphases added). “…he was happy to trade the big salary and bonus… Read More
David Worlock, CEO of EPS Limited, published an article today (as part of the EPS Insights service) discussing Google and the semantic web. He caught my interest with his account of how Google was reacting to a potentially radical change in their market: semantic web searching. While attending the Boston meeting of the American Association… Read More
I’ve been meaning to read two books by Mihaly Csikentmihalyi (pronounced Mee-high CHICK-sent-me-high-ee), an American psychologist, for about 6 months now. One is Flow and the other is Creativity. I first heard about Flow in the Fast Company article The Art of Work, by Ann Marsh. She writes that flow is “… a condition… Read More
This was a featured video on YouTube today. What happens when the customers take over?!… Read More
Earlier this month, Steve Farber stopped by and made a comment on one of The Change Resistors posts. As I result I visited his blog and ended up reading his first book, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership. The Radical Leap is a business parable about Extreme Leadership. Leap stands for: Love, Energy,… Read More
This is the final post in the change resistors series. While we’ve looked at many strategies for managing change, here are some of the highlights: Leadership’s resolve is critical Communication is key. Among other things, people need to know: Where they’re heading Why they’re heading there What they get out of it How… Read More
I often hear this question related to customers – the ones “outside” of the organization. What about inside our organizations? Do we approach our colleagues as customers to whom we market ideas? We all need to get things done. With few exceptions, we all need to work with other people to meet these goals.… Read More
After listening to Free Agent Nation, by Dan Pink, reading the comments Ann Handley and Michael Pollock made on Becoming a Solopreneur, and talking to some of my “solo” colleagues, I started to consider the transitions we go through when we leave corporate life. On our own we need to diversify our client base. If… Read More