Sure, I’d welcome to the team a Computer Engineer with great communications skills, but STEM grads aren’t especially known as clear communicators. Yesterday I read an article called “What High-Quality Job Candidates Look for in a Company.” The piece contrasts the job and…
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Tagged with: excitement, experience, hiring, interviewing, interviews, mistakes, STEM
Posted in Careers, Management
Posted in Careers, Management
Panelizing: Marketing Metrics and ROI
This morning, along with Cam Davies and Heather Hennessy, I was on a panel discussing marketing metrics and return on investment. This session was with the Strategic Marketing P2P group hosted by Communitech. We each had 15ish minutes to present our thoughts…
Tagged with: Cam Davies, Communitech, Dan Deeth, Desire2Learn, fear of failure, Global Internet Phenomena, Heather Hennessy, lead generation, Lee Brooks, metrics, Miovision, mistakes, objectives, panels, ROI, SEO, Strategic Marketing P2P
Posted in Marketing
Posted in Marketing
Fun with advertising: you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll be shocked, you’ll be confused
Now that Christmas is out of the way for another year, we can get back to what’s really important: advertising! It might not have come across yet, but I take quite a passionate interest in advertising: the good, the bad,…
Tagged with: branding, evil, failure, mistakes, prankvertising, success
Posted in Advertising, Marketing
Posted in Advertising, Marketing
Choose your own adventure: prisoner or pioneer
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” – Deepak Chopra My wife spent last week in San Francisco…
Tagged with: change, circle of control, Deepak Chopra, failure, innovation, leadership, lessons, mistakes, pioneers
Posted in Leadership, Management
Posted in Leadership, Management
Book Report: Brilliant Blunders
“How could a man of such intellectual powers as Kelvin be so sure that he was right even when he was dead wrong? Like all humans, Kelvin still had to use the hardware between his ears – his brain –…
Tagged with: blunders, Darwin, denial, discovery, Einstein, Hoyle, Kelvin, lessons, mistakes, opportunities, passion, Pauling, pioneers, scientific method, selection bias
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Book Report: The Reason I Jump
“For a long time I’ve been wondering why us people with autism can’t talk properly. I can never say what I really want to. Instead, verbal junk that hasn’t got anything to do with anything comes pouring out of my…
Tagged with: autism, circle of control, compassion, growth, lessons, mistakes, opportunities, passion, understanding
Posted in Books, Everything
Posted in Books, Everything
Book Report: Scatter, Adapt, and Remember
“If we’ve learned anything from the survivors among our ancestors, it’s that staying put and fighting change are not good tactics if we want to live. Survivors range over vast regions. If they encounter adversity in one environment, they try…
Tagged with: circle of control, gamma ray burst, lessons, mass extinction, mistakes, opportunities
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Who will join you in the future?
“He is the Silicon Valley archetype: an entrepreneur with a gift not only for seeing the future but convincing others to meet him there.” That’s a quote from Tubes (page 72, for those of you scoring at home). In the…
Tagged with: entrepreneurship, failure, leadership, mistakes, passion, The Pitch
Posted in Leadership, Marketing
Posted in Leadership, Marketing
Book Report: The Big Short
“The line between gambling and investing is artificial and thin. The soundest investment has the defining trait of a bet (you losing all of your money in hopes of making a bit more), and the wildest speculation has the salient…
Tagged with: analytics, economics, failure, hubris, lessons, Michael Lewis, mistakes, psychopathy
Posted in Books, Finance
Posted in Books, Finance
Learn from My Mistake: Dictate the Action and Increase Your Chances of Success
We learn from our successes and our failures. Sometimes the lesson is subtle, and sometimes it’s glaringly obvious. A few weeks ago I found myself all alone on a breakaway. I’d worked my butt off the whole game, strafing the…
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