Some interesting examples, if you’re into this sort of stuff:
100+ Guerrilla Marketing examples
View more presentations from Martijn Arts
One lesson from an entrepreneurial class that stuck with me: take action. Many people are failed entrepreneurs before they even start…simply because they don’t start.
Future of Work
View more presentations from Abhijit Bhaduri
Don’t let your brain deceive you. You’re smart, but the short-cuts created by your brain will outsmart you. Michael Mauboussin, author of “Think Twice,” explains how to make better decisions.
Feb 162011
Moral of the story: don’t leave it up to your employer.
Nigel Marsh is the author of “Fat, Forty and Fired” and “Overworked and Underlaid.”
Feb 142011
Matt Taibbi discusses his book “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America.
For all the budding entrepreneurs out there. Starting an Internet business can be lucrative, but, like any business, it take a lot of work to get it going. And just because there’s a billion people on the web, it doesn’t mean they’ll all be going to your site. Hard work. A good idea helps too.
Jan 222011
Coming from the auto industry this statement more confirmation that the peak oil concept is gaining mainstream acceptance.
BTW – 2020 is only 9 years from now.
Toyota's Jim Lentz Predicts Peak Oil by 2020
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Jan 202011
#1 Give Your Talents Until They Can’t Live Without It
#2 Relentlessly Pursue Your Goals Without Appearing Needy
#3 If You Don’t Love it, Leave it Alone
#4 Let Go of the Results
#5 Get Open
The report based on the book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses found that after two years of college, 45% of students learned little to nothing. After four years, 36% of students learned almost nothing.
“There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that motivated kids are going to make money whether or not they go to college,” says James Altucher, managing partner at Formula Capital. “So teach your kids how to be motivated. Teach your kids how to sell a product, build a network of connections. That’s going to be far more valuable.”
Rethinking College as Student-Loan Burdens Rise
Also read the real-life example of a somewhat absent-minded medical student: The $555,000 Student-Loan Burden
5 Presentation Lessons From The King's Speech
View more presentations from @JESSEDEE.
Jan 172011
WORK-LIFE BALANCE AND THE ECONOMICS OF WORKPLACE FLEXIBILITY:
U.S. President’s Study of American Work-Life balance (March 2010)
Today in research that will make you say “buh?”. Sort of confirms my suspicions that success requires a large dose of dumb-luck.
Predicting the Next Big Thing: Success as a Signal of Poor Judgment
Abstract:
Successfully predicting that something will become a big hit seems impressive. Managers andentrepreneurs who have made successful predictions and have invested money on this basis arepromoted, become rich, and may end up on the cover of business magazines. In this paper, we show that an accurate prediction about such an extreme event, e.g., a big hit, may in fact be an indication of poor rather than good forecasting ability. We first demonstrate how this conclusion can be derivedfrom a formal model of forecasting. We then illustrate that the basic result is consistent with datafrom two lab experiments as well as field data on professional forecasts from the Wall Street JournalSurvey of Economic Forecasts.
Predicting the Next Big Thing – Success as a Signal of Poor Judgment
Jan 112011
Millennials are the future. But using marketing messages and tactics from the past to reach them might mean that your organization will not be around to see them join your ranks.
Jan 072011
It’s interesting to break through the veneer of perception to see that some of these artists are quite entrepreneurial and visionary.
In particular, his comment – which is easily missed – about the future of the record business is quite interesting. I’m paraphrasing, but the new business model 50 Cent sees is one where artist revenues from sponsorships replace those from record sales. It may not sound revolutionary but it is because it creates a new paradigm for the industry (which may be 10 steps ahead of me, since I’m not part of the record business).
This type of discontinous thinking is that which rocks industries. Apple did it with the iPhone – an impossibility according to Apple competitors…But what Apple really did to create such an energy hungry phone that didn’t die after 20 minutes of use was think about phone construction in a completely different manner. 50 Cent is doing the same with the record business.
Jan 062011
In case you’re not getting sick of these yet…I’m not.
Predictions for 2011
View more presentations from Edward Cotton.
Includes Groupon, Patients Like Me, Flattr.com, and more…
10 business models that rocked 2010 – by @nickdemey
View more presentations from Board of Innovation (BOI).
Sam Palmisano is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM. Mr. Palmisano was appointed to Chief Executive Officer in March 2002 and Chairman in January 2003. Previously, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer.
