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Bill Gates Tried to Screw Paul Allen? What's the Surprise?
Considering the nature of people who build empires, not to mention of Gates in particular, there almost have to be stories like this.
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Considering the nature of people who build empires, not to mention of Gates in particular, there almost have to be stories like this.
Otherwise we'll fall into the same counterproductive demographic trap as Japan, the ex-president says.
Frederick AllenFollowing my post earlier today about organizations needing to shake themselves out of an inward-looking perspective and focus more on delighting their customers, I happened to stumble across an interesting description of what really happens inside large organizations today. The description of a pharmaceutical company comes from Sims Wyeth whose website has a wealth of wonderful suggestions on how to improve presentations. In this post, he describes the dilemma that his presenters face: A bunch[...] read »
Google has been a wild success. In a decade Google has emerged as one of the biggest business winners at leveraging the internet. With that great success comes risk, and opportunity, as Larry Page resumes the CEO position this year. read »
On March 2, 2011, a pale, thin Steve Jobs kicked off the iPad 2 with his signature new product presentation in San Francisco. He entered to a standing ovation and was interrupted by applause many times during the course of the talk. He was clearly playing to a crowd of fans, but nonetheless his presentation offers a number of lessons about how to present persuasively and effectively. Use these tips to improve your own presentations. read »
The iconic lighter company looks for opportunity unrelated to tobacco.
Arianna Huffington announced today that her website, Huffington Post, will begin charging customers to view its content. Inspired by the example of The New York Times, the model has already been tried on readers in Winnipeg, Canada, she reported, and is now being expanded to include employees of the Times itself. She adds that those employees will still be able to view the first six letters of each word at no charge, and "of course, stories that aggregate falsehoods to support an administration's[...] read »
Here’s a question sure to stump your dinner guests and water-cooler colleagues: when was the first automated teller machine (ATM) put into use? Hint: John F. Kennedy was in the White House and the price of gas was $0.31 per gallon. read »
“Where does the profit motive fit in with these ideas of outside-in innovation and delighting the customer?” a respondent asked on Twitter (@vadhrivenkat) in response to my post “The Alternative to Top-Down is Outside-In.” read »
Being that my chosen work practically has me preaching, goals + alignment = success, it never ceases to amaze me how easy it is to “preach” and the awareness it takes to “walk your talk” in both your personal life and in your career. read »
President Bill Clinton said today that the drop in the standing of American education among leading world nations was "disastrous," and he also said "we'll actually do better if we have more immigrants, not fewer," using the example of Japan to explain why. read »