Category Archives: Leadership

LinkedIn prospecting is becoming much worse than junk mail

Posted on June 19, 2018 by

A little over a year ago I wrote a post entitled ‘Who are you? And no I’m not going to accept your LinkedIn invitation‘.  The general idea being that random people ask to ‘join my network’ without my knowing anything … Continue reading →

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Build your professional confidence in thinking there’s nobody better than you

Posted on March 17, 2016 by

Here in the U.S. Major League Baseball’s ‘Spring Training’ games have been going on for two weeks and for those of us that love ‘America’s Pastime’ the sights and sounds of spring are inexorably wrapped up with baseball. I had … Continue reading →

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A would-have-been great marketing story that wasn’t

Posted on April 23, 2015 by

I was an adolescent when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon in July of 1969. Consequently I am more than a bit of a space geek and have always felt that NASA for better or worse has … Continue reading →

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Another college shooting hits closer to home

Posted on November 20, 2014 by

I was planning to write about Facebook and why people ‘like’ brands.  But when I woke up this morning I learned of another round of shootings on a U.S. college campus – Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.  Here in … Continue reading →

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Russia’s gambit is an opportunity for China and the U.S to get cozier

Posted on March 21, 2014 by

During the Cold War most Americans viewed the U.S.S.R. and China in a similar vein.  There were memes such as ‘Better Dead than Red’ depicting the ideologies of Socialism and Capitalism as being juxtaposed.   When the Soviet Union dissolved in … Continue reading →

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Leaders don’t think about leading

Posted on October 2, 2013 by

As I sit on a very cramped New Haven line train, I think about what makes a leader.  For whatever reason I had not realized that leaders don’t need to know everything.  I know this because I thought I liked … Continue reading →

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The Kindle Fire can’t be the best that Amazon can do

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

Even before I had bought the original Kindle in 2007 (this was pre-iPad days if you’ll recall), I had been a longtime fan of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com.   Back in the 1990’s I bought some Amazon.com stock @ $11/share only … Continue reading →

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