David A Fields
JUNE 3, 2015
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Tom Spencer
JUNE 3, 2015
Crowdfunding is a growing trend that allows individuals, non-profits and start-ups to fund projects by raising money from the crowd using an online platform. Last week I attended a crowdfunding discussion at the Oxford Launchpad with Jonathan May , CEO of Hubbub, and representatives from the development offices of various Oxford colleges. Asking for donations from alumni is one of the things that Oxford’s colleges do best, but crowdfunding offers a new and largely untested approach.
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Women in Consulting
JUNE 2, 2015
By: Rita Barber. Even if you’ve never heard of the story “Leo the Late Bloomer,” the title says it all! I think I’m a lot like Leo when it comes to realizing the benefits of certain activities and practices. Such was the case when I first started facilitating workshops more than 18 years ago! I thought all I was doing was transferring information from facilitator to participant and participant to participant, all for a modest price.
MishTalk
JUNE 1, 2015
Thanks to inane economic policies enacted by former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, and kept in place by current president Nicolás Maduro, it's impossible to find an apartment to rent in Venezuela. Mish-modified translation from Libre Mercado. Renting an apartment in Venezuela is impossible mission. Supply is tight and prices exorbitant, quite inaccessible to the vast majority of the population thanks to the 2011 Law Against Eviction and Arbitrary Unemployment.
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Chad Barr
JUNE 3, 2015
This week’s reflection point: The most common question I am asked is how to drive traffic to one’s site. Several years ago, while writing my book Million Dollar Web Presence , I discussed this concept, which was also featured in my article Where does site traffic come from? Here is my latest recap: Use your signature and incorporate links to your sites.
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Women in Consulting
JUNE 2, 2015
By: Rita Barber. Even if you’ve never heard of the story “Leo the Late Bloomer,” the title says it all! I think I’m a lot like Leo when it comes to realizing the benefits of certain activities and practices. Such was the case when I first started facilitating workshops more than 18 years ago! I thought all I was doing was transferring information from facilitator to participant and participant to participant, all for a modest price.
MishTalk
MAY 30, 2015
A number of articles now circulating are all based on a 2013 study The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerization? It's interesting that the 2013 report is now seeing the light of day in various places just this week. The best of the lot is the NPR Planet Money report Will Your Job Be Done By A Machine? The article lets you select from two drop boxes, the first is job field, the second is a specific job within that field.
Melissa Agnes
MAY 31, 2015
Welcome to episode #051 of The Crisis Intelligence Podcast, with Melissa Agnes and Jeff Reeb. Jeff Reeb is the Director of the Office of Emergency Management for the County of Los Angeles. Jeff and I met after I gave my TEDx talk earlier this year. While having a conversation with Jeff about LA County’s current strategies for effective emergency management and crisis communication, we thought that it would be fun to record our conversation, as others in the field of emergency management ar
Tom Spencer
JUNE 1, 2015
This is a guest post from Archie Ward , a business consultant and social media strategist. Archie splits his time each year between Asia and Australia. While he is hard at work helping other people make their businesses successful, he hopes to launch his own by year end. Consultants rely on image as much as they do with any other form of credibility, and one of the avenues technology has provided for consultants to easily differentiate themselves from others in their field is through the use of
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Strategy+Business
JUNE 3, 2015
Contrary to the popular notion that consumers care for the products they own, people are more likely to act recklessly toward certain items when a more appealing upgrade reaches the market.
MishTalk
JUNE 2, 2015
Not only were Factory Orders down for the eighth time in nine months, last month's rise in core capital goods was revised away. Chalk up another miss for economists. The Bloomberg Consensus estimate was -0.1% in a range of -0.6 to +1.5% with the actual report at -0.4%. Factory orders fell 0.4 percent in April for the 8th decline in 9 months, a depressing streak interrupted only by March's revised gain of 2.2 percent, a gain inflated by a monthly swing higher for civilian aircraft.
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 4, 2015
When I write about linchpins and people on a mission, I often hear from bosses who ask a variant of, "Any idea how I can find people like that for my business?". It's unreasonable to expect extraordinary work from someone who isn't trusted to create it. It's unreasonable to find someone truly talented to switch to your organization when your organization is optimized to hire and keep people who merely want the next job.
Tom Spencer
JUNE 5, 2015
John Paulson, the American hedge fund manager and billionaire, donated $400 million to Harvard University this week. The donation will go to Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences which, strangely enough, will be renamed the “Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences” Donating money to an educational institution can never be a bad thing, can it?
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Strategy+Business
JUNE 1, 2015
Jessica Kennedy, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, talks to strategy+business about the connection between unethical behavior and high rank, and between moral outrage and gender.
MishTalk
JUNE 3, 2015
Bond Rout in Pictures German 10-year bonds hit a yield low of.048% on April 16. Since then it's been a pretty steep uphill climb in yield (down in price). Germany 10-Year Bond Yield Spain 10-Year Bond Yield Yield on the Spanish 10-year bond hit a preposterously low yield of 1.052% on March 11. It now sits at 2.136%, a rise of 108 basis points. US 10-Year Bond Yield Get Used to Higher Volatility Bloomberg reports Draghi Says Volatility Here to Stay as Global Bond Rout Deepens.
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 5, 2015
Writing and speaking (essays, non-fiction, copywriting, direct interactions, speeches) can be easily sorted into two groups: The expected. The unexpected. We don't remember what most people say when they greet us (at a party, or even a funeral) because it's banal. Most college essays, tweets and advertising copy fit right into this category. The prose we consume every day gets instantly processed, filed away and ignored.
Tom Spencer
JUNE 4, 2015
(Source: Flickr ). I attended a talk last week at the Oxford Union given by Alexandra Shulman, editor-in-chief of British Vogue. Shulman is the longest serving editor in British Vogue history. She took the helm in 2002, and has presided over a circulation increase to 220,000 copies. Needless to say, I was interested to hear what she had to say about the media and publishing industry.
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Martinka Consulting
JUNE 5, 2015
In my (business) world I run into a lot of overthinking. Smart people who make things complicated trying to add perfection versus simplicity. People who dream up wild scenarios of what might be happening instead of asking a question. And those who imagine all the things going wrong, or which might go wrong, in a business that hasn’t had those things happen in a decade.
MishTalk
JUNE 1, 2015
Greek officials keep stating a deal is near. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs Warns Greece May Need to Default on Debts as IMF deadline looms. Goldman Sachs broached the subject of a default in a note published on Monday, claiming that the country could be forced into drastic measures amid fears that it will miss a €305m (£220m) payment due on Friday to the International Monetary Fund.
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 3, 2015
Criticism is difficult to do well. Recently, we've made it super easy for unpaid, untrained, amateur critics to speak up loudly and often. Just because you can hear them doesn't mean that they know what they're talking about. Criticism is easy to do, but rarely worth listening to, mostly because it's so easy to do.
Tom Spencer
JUNE 2, 2015
A few weeks ago I attended a panel discussion at Oxford’s Said Business School entitled “Trust Me, I’m A Stranger: Learn from leading entrepreneurs innovating in the collaborative economy” The panelists were Lily Cole founder of Impossible , a social network that encourages users to exchange skills and services for free in the hope of encouraging a peer-to-peer gift economy; Sam Stephens founder of streetbank , a website that helps neighbours build community, reduce consu
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freshminds
JUNE 2, 2015
Powerpoint is a very important tool for consultants as making presentations is a large part of the job. But Powerpoint can also be a fiddly business and time saving tips and tricks are undoubtedly welcome for all those late night presentation making sessions or trying to finish one off during a train or plane journey on the way to the client.! This blog post from Articulate E-learning has 5 great time saving tips including short video tutorials on the points made. more.
MishTalk
JUNE 2, 2015
Investors in general do not give a rat's ass about gold. Here's proof: Gold Out of Favor as Investors Cut Holdings to Six-Year Low. Investors cut holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded products to the lowest since 2009 as surging stock markets from the U.S. to China hurt demand and prospects for rising U.S. interest rates boosted the dollar. The assets contracted 5.45 metric tons, or 0.3 percent, to 1,594.08 tons as of Tuesday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Seth Godin Blog
JUNE 2, 2015
Every fast-growing social movement, non-profit and brand of the last decade has grown because people have chosen to talk. Not shelving allowances, coupons, A/B testing, Super Bowl ads, dancing tube men or Formula One sponsorships. Each can be a productive tool, but at the heart of real growth is a simple idea: People decide to tell other people. Start with that.
Martinka Consulting
JUNE 3, 2015
I’ll write this without giving any examples from airlines, cable companies or cell service providers. In the same week the first two items happened and the third is an ongoing issue (especially in the Seattle area). My executive suite operator (Regus) informed me I could only book meeting rooms in even-hour increments as their system can’t handle half-hour blocks (so I can’t book a 90 minute time block).
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