Independent Thinking Blog
Independent Thinking Blog
What Companies Can Learn from Global Oil Prices
If you own or run a business, pay attention to how Saudi Arabia is handling falling oil prices. They're doing nothing, and it's brilliant. Saudi Arabia's break-even point for a barrel of oil is somewhere around $20. Meanwhile, the price to extract that same gallon of...
4 Sources of Great Un-Stock Photos
I had the pleasure of talking about trends in communications* at an IABC meeting last week. One of the 10 trends I highlighted is visual content. Visual content has exploded—and people who post visual content are being rewarded on various social platforms. Facebook...
What to Do When Your Site Gets Hacked
You know you’re in trouble when you’re hoping the email you’re staring at is spam. I woke up on December 24 to a notice from Google’s Webmaster Tools that my site was infected. It read, in part: Unfortunately, it appears some pages on your site may infect visitors...
Getting Paid
Getting paid matters. Employee. CEO. Consultant. Entrepreneur. Vendor. Subcontractor. Add your title here. However you're classified, it's nice to see the pay check, consulting fee, sales transaction, and so forth, come through. A client called me on Friday and her...
The Problem with Failure Culture
There's a thought-provoking article on failure in The Washington Post. Geoff Lewis, a venture capitalist, writes: The understated acceptance of failure that propelled Silicon Valley for decades has morphed into something dangerous: failure porn. “Failure” as fast...