Quick quiz: What do Toys R Us, Radio Shack and Claire’s have in common? Aside from declaring Chapter 11 (Radio Shack did it twice), each retailer committed the cardinal sin of ceding the personal customer relationship to the cloud (Think: Amazon, eBay, etc.). They also completely neglected the immense sales potential within a five-mile radius […]
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The world reflects your view of it, so if you change the way you look at things, things change the way they look. The things we focus on create a magnet for our lives. Focus on opportunities, and doors seem to open. Focus on problems, and obstacles are plentiful. Focus on things outside of
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. On many days, research reports fall upon my inbox like comedic actors of the Mr. Bean School trying to get a laugh. Often, they’re concocted by PR people, worded in order to get the precise answers their
Have you read The Four Hour Work Week? It was a massive bestseller for years, and has been translated into more than 40 languages. However, I was surprised to realize that more than a decade after its publication, it still has the distinction of being the most-highlighted book on Amazon, at least as of last year.
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No question that Amazon is a smart operator. But it’s also capable of some astounding blunders, particularly when automation and big data take a hand. That seems to be the case now as a lot of Amazon customers have found their accounts locked without much in the way of explanation or efforts to rectify the
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Leadership was once called by historian James MacGregor Burns “one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.” Given the results of some recent research, this no longer appears to be the case. Leadership development consultants Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman published the results of a study they conducted on the skills that leaders need to succeed in their current positions.
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Employee engagement is one of the most highly discussed topics in the corporate world. Peruse any business media site and you’ll quickly find stories about the best places to work, the coolest companies, and the cultures that are doing phenomenal things to capture the hearts and minds of their employees. From a leadership perspective, focusing
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Any good executive or owner of a company knows that culture is king. It should be in their best interest to build an organization where shared values and virtues are held firmly, and where jerks, bullies, and troublemakers don’t thrive. Reason being, if your good workers and high performers are witnessing these toxic behaviors in action, as
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I’m waiting, Facebook. So far I don’t have access to the new tools you claim will make it easier for us all to control our privacy settings. As a result, I can’t do as I’ve been doing this week: using screenshots to show how to see what apps Facebook is giving your data to, or downloading
