7 Ways to Motivate Without Money
Inc - Tue, Jun 11, 2013 10:50 AM EDTIt's easy to increase someone's paycheck. It's not so easy to reward without money, but these groups have figured it out. More »7 Ways to Motivate Without Money
It's easy to increase someone's paycheck. It's not so easy to reward without money, but these groups have figured it out. More »7 Ways to Motivate Without Money
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“There are great learning curves in small business.” Sage words from Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rachel Thomas. At 24, Thomas founded BrainTrust, a staffing agency focused on recent graduates. She went on to serve as vice president of marketing for Playdom, the social gaming company, and to cofound Subtext, the first collaborative reading platform for K-12... More »Women and Work: 6 Practical Tools From Lean In President
Consumers are being subjected to an invitation avalanche, with every company of every size, shape and description asking people to like them, follow them, friend them, click, share and +1 them. This is in addition to the interruption marketing tactics and findability campaigns already in existence. At best, it wears thin. At worst, it does... More »Why Being Amazing Isn’t A Marketing Strategy
The web is already buzzing with Apple’s first press event of 2013. The WWDC 2013 keynote had plenty to offer in terms of new announcements majorly focusing to both iOS and OS X. If you have missed out the coverage then Verge has done justice to the coverage. Besides all these announcements Apple has also... More »Apple Announces Support For Chinese Microblogging Site Tencent Weibo In iOS 7
As my grandma always used to say, “God willing someone answers the phone.” For context, she was talking about customer service and sales people. Are you ready for an open discussion? If you are, that means first, (and still unlike most customer service programs), you need to make yourself accessible. Being accessible means you have... More »Accessibility as Strategy: The One-Way Conversation is Dead
My mom hurt my feelings the other day. I was telling her how excited I was to work on a few projects I’m leading and she said ‘Deanna, what exactly do you do? When you worked at newspapers, I saw your articles every day so I knew what you were doing. Now, I really don’t... More »Digital Strategy: Not a Job For The Lazy
Team Building exercises do one of two things. They energize a group who needed a little bit of a jolt to get excited about projects or … … They make a team … …. Fall deeper and deeper … … Into a disenchanted funk. — Resulting in mass exodus and gossip. A while back, I... More »When Team Building Is A Waste Of Time …
Service Level Agreements, or service contracts, have been a hotly contested item in the SOA world. Generally, the business needs drive the creation of service level agreements. While I do understand that business drivers and the business analysts should drive technology, in the world of SOA there are many reasons pushing the direct opposite. Many unknown... More »Service Level Agreements: The Chicken and The Egg
Any seasoned strategist knows once a plan is put into action, things are going to come up. Whether it’s politically, personally or in business, strategy is only perfect until it’s lifted off paper and given life. One of the most intriguing things about strategy is the uncertainty it has coupled with the sheer exhilaration of... More »Why Strategists Should Seek Top Spots In Business
Just because IT sales leads are somehow a unit of information does not mean you can just harvest them so easily with things like IT technology. Sure, you can grab addresses from a directory or use social media searches to root out millions of other non-qualified prospects. That does not mean the results you get... More »IT Sales Leads Are Not Just Harvested Info
Serial entrepreneur Norm Brodsky knows firsthand that your leadership style and ability to create a great company culture can make or break a business. More »Your Top Job Is Creating a Culture
The Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) is in town and some big news is emerging including lots of changes for iOS 7, OS X 10.9 (say goodbye to big cat naming conventions and hello Cali), a new Mac Pro and MacBook Airs with all day battery life (woot!). Here’s a breakdown of the news:... More »Apple WWDC 2013 – News From Day 1
Every workplace has one. And depending on how this person is managed, he can be the death of a department. I’m talking about the person with all the ‘Big Ideas’. … But there’s a problem … The ‘Big Idea’ person rarely knows how to get anything done. He sees from start to finish, but all... More »Why Management Sometimes Buries The ‘Big Idea’
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in courting a client, going after that dream job, attracting new customers, or changing careers is coming across as though you aren’t confident in your service, product, or personal value. Which is why I want to talk about that very thing in today’s video – and give... More »How to Build Confidence & Nab Your Dream Job
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