It’s been a while since I’ve written a counterpoint to someone else’s thesis when it comes to anything touching leadership or employee development strategies. I think my last one was this post in July arguing that imagination is not dead but alive and well. Here I go again today. Dharmesh Shah has a new guest [...]
Did you know that in late October, Denver will be a mecca for workplace team building and employee engagement practices that improve both business results and job satisfaction? It’s true – that’s when Winning Workplaces will join with our Top Small Company Workplaces award media partner, Inc. Magazine, to host Creating Competitive Cultures (C3): New [...]
What follows below might seem like a contradictory argument. After all, I commented last week on Mediabistro’s Facebook page, in response to Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ controversial proclamation that "Flash is no longer necessary," Of course he would say that. One of Apple’s Laws (or maybe Steve’s Laws) is that if it doesn’t work on [...]
Marcia Yudkin, the author of 6 Steps to Free Publicity, has a new article on the Entrepreneur & Self-Employed Business Journal website in which she offers five reasons to say no to blogging. These include the fact that quality content can be more professional and less conversational in tone (the latter quality being associated with [...]