Archive for May 2012
What’s a #blindpost?
I write a lot of #blindpost’s, which means I read a headline and then write a post without reading the original article to see where I’ll end up with it. I find this to be a good exercise in breaking through writers block when blogging, but also some people just come up with great ideas…
Read MoreI’m excited and disappointed all at the same time #Engauge
On the one hand, we won a great new piece of business today that I’m thrilled about. Our team worked so hard for this one and to win in an extremely competitive situation is always a great accomplishment. On the other hand, we had a fund raiser for Junior Achievement today – sort of a…
Read MoreThe importance of company culture – passed to me by @steve83
“Building talent and culture will have the most significant, longest-lasting impact on an organization — more so than any other activity a CEO can do.” John R. Strangfeld, Chairman and CEO, Prudential Financial ~ couldn’t agree more, Mr. Strangfeld
Read MoreFacebook’s tenets
I’m a big “tenets” guy. All the teams that report to me at Engauge are required to have three core tenets that define their team’s mission and their goals for the year. A friend recently shared with me Facebook’s core tenets. I’m not sure exactly how official these are, but they seem to make sense…
Read MoreBook I’m reading: Drop Dead Healthy
Drop Dead Healthy is a funny and well-written book about the many different health craze theories. It has some great insights into simple things we can do to be more healthy – for instance I’m standing while writing this blog post – plus its a humorous story as the writer tries all of these interesting…
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