Business Objectives, goals, tactics, and measures We are more powerful when we can see the difference between an objective, goal, tactic, and measure.
Business 16 observations: exploring marketing at upscale Cherry Creek Mall in Denver, Colorado "No marketing activity, including innovation, should be seen as a goal itself, its goal is to hold on to or improve mental or physical availability." -Byron Sharp, "How Brands Grow"
Business Innovate, partner, and sell: A strategy for Zoom Video Communications, Inc. Zoom faces big opportunities in market penetration and innovation but fierce competition from Microsoft and Google. How can Zoom remain relevant and grow?
Tech AMD's new 7nm Zen 2 microprocessors a strong choice for most desktop computer users When I last built a desktop computer, I chose an Intel processor. Starting on July 7, 2019, I would choose an AMD.
Business 5 Books for Leadership in 2019 This month, I reconnected with a five books about leadership that remain relevant in 2019.
Business Keeping that field clean "Avoid, mitigate, transfer, and accept" are the four generic risk response strategies. Here is a concrete example.
Business Book review: "Endurance" by Scott Kelly "Endurance" - without promising to be a book about management or leadership - is exactly that.
Senegal Kindness In Senegal, kindness is built into the fabric of everyday social interactions and conversations. In one of my favorite examples, people in Senegal will often think you are unhappy or
Tech An Apple e-writer? The direct financial results of manufacturing and commercializing a high-quality e-writer would probably be unimpressive, but the creative output and accompanying consumer goodwill could be magnificent.
Business 3 tools for better meetings Whether you are in charge of meetings or just attending them, you can take steps to level-up your meeting performance. Here are three tools to consider: planning, paper, and problem perception.
Business Understanding the political communicators Understanding agenda-setting, framing, and priming gives us power and agency in our hypercommunicative world. The fear of the unknown has an upside: concepts become more comfortable when they are named.
Business Federal government contractor priorities in a nutshell Deliver, recommend, and capture, and the support of those functions, summarizes what government contractors do every day.
Tech Review: the least expensive phone I found at a phone shop in Senegal While its low price might suggest an unremarkable experience, this phone has surprised me in two ways.
Tech Case study: choosing open source versus proprietary software In our last post, we learned how to change a image's background to transparent using ImageMagick. Hundreds of software programs could have done this. Why did we choose ImageMagick?
Tech How to make an image's background transparent using ImageMagick magick convert FILE.png -fuzz 4% -transparent "#ffffff" TRANSPARENT.png
Tech What "killer apps" have in common The basic usefulness of the computer is inextricably linked to its ability to model some informational or physical reality.
Business Feeling stuck? You may be freer than you think. While this tropical beach scenario is a fiction, its parallels to jobs and careers are real.
Tech 7 ways to build a website Here are seven ways to create a simple "Hello, World!" web page, right now.
Business Teamwork and the Omelette Principle Effective teamwork is an eternal key to organizational success. We do more together. Remember the "Omelette Principle," and be the humble executive.
Tech Review: the Windows Subsystem for Linux The Windows Subsystem for Linux simplifies life for PC-based developers and power users. Use it to replace complicated software (VMs, dual-boot setups, SSH clients, SFTP clients, etc.) with one clean solution.
Business What software and baking soda-and-vinegar volcanoes have in common Both are projects. Here is why that matters.
