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I was speaking with David Epstein, the founder of The Unreasonable Institute, the brainchild of Unreasonable at Sea, the Google sponsored innovation ship that is presently sailing from port to port globally. Mr. Epstein’s mission statement is borrowed from George Bernard Shaw who in 1903 wrote in Man and Superman: “The reasonable man adapts himself... More »SuperBrands and the Unreasonable Screen: How to Lead in Mobile
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Mistakes I hate to make mistakes. I know I am human. I tell myself we all make mistakes. But big or small, consequential or meaningless, they bum me out. The worst kinds involve watching a simple slip-up cascade into a growing series of headaches. The latest involved a Bermuda Triangle of my personal bank account,... More »Mistakes, Lies, and Training
As a professional resume writer, I often get questions from friends and family members about the finer points of crafting the perfect document. While many people want to know whether you really need to list off your skills in a “core competencies section” (you do) others have more specific questions. Lately, I’ve gotten a lot... More »5 Tips for Writing a Resume When You’re Changing Careers
News broke over the weekend that Yahoo! has agreed to buy microblogging site Tumblr for an estimated $1.1 billion. Responses to the news have been, to say the least, negative: Mashable has a list of user reactions on Twitter and Tumblr that range from shocked and angry to outrageous and silly. The general consensus from... More »Sellout: Yahoo! Rumored to Buy Tumblr
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An established business tool across the food industry, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is gaining traction across the wider spectrum of wholesale companies. Here, we look at some of the reasons why. EDI – the key to genuine supply chain integration For businesses looking to achieve genuine supply chain integration, EDI is an absolute must. It... More »EDI – What is it, and Why Do I Need it? (Part 5/5)
Design Thinking For Your Mobile Strategy Design Thinking is a powerful problem-solving approach that spurs innovation and growth by combining what is desirable from a human perspective with what makes the most sense technologically and economically. In Mobile Minute #10, we discussed how design thinking could help you create an unbeatable Mobile strategy. In Mobility... More »7 Steps To Leverage Design Thinking For Your Mobile Strategy (Part 2)
In a very short time the number of computing related clouds have exploded, Public, Private, Hybrid etc. Everything seems to be rebranded/ cobranded/ reinvented/ paint jobbed as a ‘Cloud’. Many questions are being raised, e.g. will a SaaS cloud float at a higher level than a PaaS cloud and will they all float on top... More »Revisiting The Question: What Do You Call A Group Of Clouds?
How do you use social selling to continue the conversation after the event or trade show? Your feet are aching, your back is probably hurting, and you might still have the ‘customer smile’ set in stone on your face, but there is still quota and sales goals to meet. I just returned from SAP’s SAPPHIRE... More »Social Selling: 5 Ways To Continue the Conversation After the Big Event
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Previously the Greatest Things Since Sliced Bread It’s amazing how technology has evolved over the past 20 years. From clunky desktop computers to sleek and inconspicuous smartphones, our devices have become faster, stronger, and better. So have the websites that we visit on a daily basis. Inspired by our past post on gone and almost... More »Internet Artifacts: 7 Websites From the Days of Yore
A couple of years ago, I lived in a single room. It wasn’t very large, but I still somehow managed to squeeze all my stuff into it. I slept in there, ate in there, watched TV, played Xbox and worked until the small hours in there. Everything was OK until it came to cleaning that... More »A House Too Small To Clean
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