Today in Seattle, a thin blanket of snow and ice covered many of the streets. Local schools were closed, and driving to work was somewhat hazardous.A year ago, similar conditions swept Seattle, and I wrote about the two-sided opportunity snow days represent for many of us. The analogy is ...
I was fascinated to read a couple days ago about the possible split between Sears and their Craftsman tool brand. According to the story, Sears may reorganize into several separate companies, which could include splitting out the Craftsman and Die-Hard brands. For decades, Craftsman has been synonymous with Sears ...
Yesterday afternoon, I gave a presentation with minimal slides. In fact, I used just one slide. I might as well have used too many.Let me qualify.I'm a fan of eliminating copy-heavy slides from presentations. Too many words, and they're reading - not listening. You might as ...
I've been a big fan of the ZenHabits blog for some time. Recently, its author fulfilled a long-held dream by quitting his day job and embarking on a career as a full-time writer.Flip through his well-written blog and you'll see why this was a very good idea. Leo ...
I've gotten in the habit of having pen and paper with me nearly everywhere I go, to better capture the ideas that aren't always thoughtful enough to show up when I can do something about them. When I'm mobile and writing something down isn't easy (or safe), I use ...
I'm clearly going to be quite late to the Twitter game, but here goes. Click here if you want to follow me. My initial fear and apprehension about Twitter was purely time-based. I can see Twitter sucking up a LOT of time, without the level of ROI I ...
When Steve Jobs gets on stage to introduce the latest innovations from Apple, the presentation you see is very well rehearsed. Jobs and his team fully understand just how critical Jobs himself is to the Apple brand, and they correctly take that very seriously.Apple's understanding of that brand, and ...
Want to read more, but just don't have the time? Let someone else read for you!It's not crazy. There are a number of tools, most online and many for free, where basically someone else does the "heavy lifting" of reading everything, summarizing what's most important and prescient for ...
About four years ago, a vacant lot in northeast Bellevue, Washington was turned into a new Whole Foods. This, for better or worse, was a stone's throw away from the building in which I was working at the time.Very quickly, Whole Foods became a lunch destination almost every day. ...
The folks over at Sustainable Life Media have been gracious enough to let me write about green marketing best practices from time to time. This month's column focuses on several ways to make your media campaigns more environmentally-friendly, from start to finish.Special thanks to Mark Jones and Hydrogen Advertising ...