In the world that we live in it is hard to find security in anything we do, be it our career, financial security, or education. Those insecurities in life are what lead us as a people to search for our purpose on earth and meaning in life. Bud Boughton, featured guest on Expert Access Radio discusses how to find what is missing if your life, and how to ground yourself.
By Robyn Johnson
Sallie Felton, clutter coach, international speaker and author of If I’m So Smart, Why Can’t I Get Rid of This Clutter? shares her ideas on how to un-clutter your desk, mind and life. Discover what you don’t want to do, how to delegate it to others to get it done and how to prioritize what you need to do today.
By Marilyn Cox Five suggestions for practicing patience, and avoiding pushover status with your kids and colleagues.
By Liz Harter
I’m not normally a fan of the promoted tweets or trending topics on Twitter. They never seem to be done genuinely or even in a smart fashion. I’ve really only noticed the ones that turned out to be horribly negative for the company. But I am a big fan of giving people credit where credit is due and @SiemensUSA used their promoted hashtag wonderfully.
The internet has changed complex selling forever. Buyers have more control and more information than ever. And they’re not giving it back. They don’t need sales people – or do they? Learn how … To build the bridge of trust – the first step to any sale! To sell value instead of price and increase [...]
The old man was singled out by the crowd at a family get together. Dressed in bib overalls, worn T-shirt and a past prime denim cap.
He was a hard-working farmer. It showed.
The crowd urged him on…
“Come on old man, play! Bring out the third hand.”
Bob Dylan. Ludwig van Beethoven. William Shakespeare. Steve Jobs. These are historical figures of such staggering creative genius that we often think of as freaks of nature. That their creative talent is a God-given gift, or some biological mutation that only affects a handful of special people. But new research is beginning to shed light on the science behind creativity and imagination. As it turns out, anyone can be creative.
By Brian Solis & Jeremiah Owyang Companies are quick to add influence metrics into their social support systems, and marketing prioritization despite having full understanding of how these measurement tools actually create their indexes. This report, written as a playbook for businesses focuses on how to benefit from desirable effects and outcomes through social media [...]
David Meerman Scott, perhaps the pre-eminent visionary on understanding social media and its impact on the business world, will offer insights you’ll get nowhere else. In this free webinar, sponsored by Cincom, learn how your business can benefit from: Developing a business culture that encourages speed over sloth Reading buying signals as people interact with [...]
Are you a Road Warrior? If so … check this GlobeRunner Awards. Give praise where due.
A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality should be like.
Marc Benioff opens Cloudforce San Francisco talking about the computer industry’s shift towards social, mobile and open technologies. And how that shift has led to a Social Revolution that touches us all. For more, go to the COMPLETE LIST OF CLOUDFORCE PRESENTATIONS.
Could someone please invent some unbreakable, indestructible duct tape? Use a nanotech diamondoid substance. ASAP.
MBA Online created the brain-battering, mind-splattering infographic below titled, “A Day in the Internet.” It has me reaching for the diamondoid duct tape that doesn’t exist yet.
By Marilyn Cox My daughter informed me she wants to be an “Adventure Rescuer” when she grows up. I’m not sure what that is, but it’s her chosen career path this week and it sounds fun. Because this is her present professional goal she needed to train. We spent the morning training to be Adventure [...]
By Lou Washington You now have your vendor responses from your initial RFP ERP request. Much of what happens now will be determined by what you did in the conceptual and execution stages of your ERP RFP. The main goal was the collection of actionable information; so hopefully, the answers you sought are there. Do [...]
By Steve Kayser
Through the trials and travails of life we rarely stop to think of what we are doing or have done that makes a difference. A real difference. Something that makes the world a little bit better in any way – no matter how small. Something that leaves our slice of a fleeting, vaporous life better than before we took our first baby breath. We’re so enmeshed in doing, doing and more doing, that we lose sight of creating meaning – usually until it’s too late.
But what does a real difference mean anyway?
Many times it bares no resemblance to what we might have thought at the time. Or others think.
This is one such story.
Over 292 million Americans do not get the minimum level of exercise … especially at work. Burning calories typing emails or flexing your biceps while doing drag and drop graphics doesn’t really count. Or being a voracious Tweeter, bacchanalian blogger, fierce Facebooker, lampadephoe LinkedIn’er or a Power-plussing G+’er.
Is work killing you?
Long ago and far away (from Silicon Valley anyway), in September of 1968, a radical idea for a new product and a new company was born in a Cincinnati basement; an idea that took seed with only $600, a card table and a dream. Before Microsoft, before Apple, before Oracle … Cincom.
By Liz Harter Have you ever noticed how easy it is to get jaded or complacent with things that are really quite cool when you see or work with them every day? It’s the reason Ferris Bueller told us to stop and look around once in a while. It’s why people always tell us to stop and [...]
By Louis Columbus The Data Center Services (DCS) market is at a turning point today, with both Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) strategies potentially playing a pivotal role.
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