The goal of my articles to date here on the Linkedin Influencers platform has been to help you slow down and guide you on the journey inwards, to discover your true Self, to help you be the Captain of your Ship.… Read more
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Contradictions about Facebook
Lots of data and commentary came out about Facebook these past few days. One set concerns the membership base. Here, the worry is about peaking membership numbers and an aging user base. Not only seem older users be more interested in Facebook than before but younger ones appear to disengage with it.… Read more
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Outsourcing and Management Consulting: When do Firms do What?
I just did a search on keyword “consulting” and found that two of the top articles that appeared were on the problems that the large Indian outsourcing firms were having in getting enough visas for their employees to work in the US, and McKinsey’s attempts to get female workers who left the company to return.… Read more
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Apollo 11. He’s Still Innovating
On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. EST, five F-1 engines lifted the 6.2 million-pound Saturn V rocket into space. (As a reference point, that’s the equivalent of tossing about 400 full-grown elephants into the air at once.) Jeff Bezos, who was 5 years old at the time, was watching—intently.… Read more
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Why you need First Aid to be a great communicator and leader
The theme that runs through my previous articles is that when you truly know yourself, standing or sitting in front of an audience with real presence and genuine confidence, being the big person that you are, is not something you suddenly have to switch on there and then in the moment, because it is there with you all the time.… Read more
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Liberate Your Employees and Recharge your Business Model
As we discussed in our recent blog post on HBR Blogging Network, it finally seems that the uproar overMarissa Meyer’s diktat banning flexible work policies at Yahoo is dying down. While good arguments were made on both sides of the issue, what got lost in the charged debate was the potential for evolving traditional business models through changing the employee-employer relationship.… Read more
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What did Yahoo Buy? Problems and Opportunities in Learning from Others
Wall Street Journal reports that Nick D’Aloisio, who is 17 years old, has sold his company to Yahoo Inc. for an undisclosed price that is rumored to be above 10 million dollar. Nick D’Aloisio started work on the free newsreader app Summly when he was 15, and it became a successful tool to quickly read news summaries.… Read more
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Video on demand: some news
Video on demand is the hottest topic in media nowadays. Many see it as the next technology ready to disrupt further an otherwise already disrupted traditional media landscape.
One question is: how should traditional channels react to the appearance of this new offer?… Read more
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