Planning, Startups, Stories

Graphic Evidence of What We Value Most
	Like it or not, your real priority, my real priority, our society’s real priority shows up not in what we say but in how we spend our resources, including, of course, how we spend our time. Time is the scarcest resource. Author David McCandless at Information is Beautiful called it Cognitive Surplus Visualized in honor of [...] ...»

The Sad Truth About Best Practices
	"¦ is that most of the time, they won’t work for you or me. They worked for somebody, some time, in some situation, in the past. Sure, the idea of best practices is attractive. Supposedly you or I can follow along, obediently, and succeed using so-called best practices. Too bad it doesn't work. For example, [...] ...»

Is Flipboard’s Buzz Bad Timing or Good Marketing?
	What do you think? Is this bad timing, a buzz-killing mistake, or artificial scarcity that creates more buzz? I was in an email conversation recently with the founder of one of the coolest new news apps available on the iPad, and he asked me what I thought about Flipboard. I’m guessing why he asked: all that buzz, [...] ...»

Guy Kawasaki and the Zen of Not Zen
	I admit it. I got really jealous of all the Zen of this and Zen of that writing, dating all the way back to the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which I wanted to like, tried to like, but couldn't. Yes, I gave into the horrible temptation, and even posted Zen and [...] ...»

Journalism and Blogging: Both Sides Now
	Jolie O'Dell is a journalist who blogs. She cares about journalism, I gather, because of the way she writes about it in posts like How to Tell a journalist from a Blogger and Not all bloggers are journalists and not all journalists are jerks on her own blog. Most of the time, though, she's a [...] ...»

5 Points On Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
	Go ahead, you can ask: what do I know about this? I'm an old white guy, so take what I have to say here with some healthy skepticism. But I like to think my eyes were opened up to gender inequality by my pre-hippie question-authority mother back in the early 1960s, and kept open by [...] ...»

10 Blogging Tips. My 1,000th Post on This Blog
	Last night I was halfway through a draft post patting myself on the back, illustrated with champagne glasses, when my youngest daughter, Megan, called from San Francisco, where she lives now. That's @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert,Â marketing manager of Klout.com. So I asked her this: "What do I do with my [...] ...»

Are You Cheating Time on Your Own Strategy?
	How do you spend your time? What you spend the most work time on ought to be what you value the most in the business. Right? That's your real priority. When I was an active consultant, one of the problems I had with business strategy consulting was getting the client companies to manage their spending and [...] ...»

Easy Spreadsheet Plans a Session or Meeting.
	I often have to engineer a workshop or presentation to fit into a few hours with topics divided into segments, and times set up for breaks. That's just hard enough to do that I sat down the other day and looked up the Excel functions so I could set it up and then shuffle and [...] ...»

With or Without Paper, the News Lives On. I hope.
	As the newspaper business seems to die slowly, I console myself with the idea that journalism isn’t dying with it. The Huffington Post is booming. The New York Times will bring in about $350 million this year. The new iPad shows us how we can spread the paper in front of us with coffee and [...] ...»

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