What's the most annoying thing about many mid-range and higher-end hotels? Charges for Internet. If you're like me, the idea of being nickeled and dimed over something as basic as going online makes you crazy. Especially when the "cheaper" brands are factoring the...
Have you ever let your expectations get in the way of your experience? I was in a Healthy Back store the other day to buy an exercise ball. When I got home, I discovered that the ball might have been opened before, and the plug & stem for blowing it up and sealing...
In keeping with the time constraints of busy, always on-the-go workers, MarketingProfs has created a new "Take 10" series: short, 10-minute presentations with actionable takeaways. I was smart enough to take 10 minutes out the other day to get a LinkedIn 101 refresher...
There's a long, fascinating profile of Nike CEO Mark Parker in Fast Company. The article talks about Parker's bio, corporate culture, and where's he's taking the company and how. One line about his management style really stood out: [Bill] Bowerman's coaching...
There's a new study out that suggests that fewer Americans are turning to entrepreneurship in 2010 than did in 2009. According to an article in Entrepreneur's Daily Dose blog, the study by outsourcing firm Challenger, Gray, & Christmas* found that "just 3.7...
There was a sound bite on the evening news recently about how a lot of fishermen on the Gulf Coast will be sorry to see BP pull out as they have grown used to the big pay days. (Now, whether this is true is for a different post--and one I’m not going to touch.) It...
Mark Hurd is a very stupid man. With all the money he was earning from Hewlett-Packard, don’t you think he could have paid cash (his cash) for dinner if he didn't want a paper trail? You don’t have to pay me $12 million or $10 million or even $1 million. It doesn't...
If you ever leave your office and still want to get work done, you know that finding mobility is an ongoing process. My new Workshifting.com post looks at the sometimes elegant, sometimes awkward art of chasing mobility. Check it out and let me know: What are you...
I've been looking at my Twitterstream in real time since Thursday morning. Unlike the streamtime approach we've become used to, real time has no updates. It is a non-stop stream. Instant-ness. Immediacy. In a blog post aptly titled Trialling Twitter at the Speed of...
My latest post at Workshifting.com was sparked by this thought-provoking article on BNET about the impact of gender on how men's brains and women's brains function--and the impact this has on how we work. As more people shift out of office settings, it seems we're due...