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11 Nov 09
Upside vs. downside
"Here's a rule that's so inevitable that it's almost a law: As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring. With more to lose and more people to lose it, meetings and policies become more about avoiding risk than providing joy."
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Here's a rule that's so inevitable that it's almost a law: As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring. With more to lose and more people to lose it, meetings and policies become more about avoiding risk than providing joy.
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With more to lose and more people to lose it, meetings and policies become more about avoiding risk than providing joy.
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30 Sep 09
Personal Kaizen: 15 Tips for your continuous improvement
"Though Kaizen is a tool used by corporations to achieve greater innovation, productivity, and general excellence, it’s also an approach, an approach that we can learn from and apply to our own lives as we strive for continuous improvement on a more personal level. We can call this “Personal Kaizen.” Others have applied the personal kaizen approach to personal efficiency or GTD. You too can take the spirit of kaizen and apply it to your own unique personal kaizen approach to improve — step-by-step, little-by-little — your design mindfulness, knowledge, and skill. "
19 Sep 09
The Complete Newbie’s Guide to Marketing
Think the secret to successful marketing and running a profitable online business is some piece of Jedi mastery that you would need to study for years to learn?
Not even close.
Most businesses (online and off) just get the basics wrong.
So here’s what works. Get these right and you’ll be ahead of 98% of your competition.
11 Sep 09
Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and Best Practices | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
In this article, we will focus on a variety of techniques and best practices to improve the usability of horizontal navigation bars, and we will note less effective styles. We’ll also look at several trends that developers can choose from when working on the navigation design for their next project.
50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing
This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more. We hope that drawing tutorials and techniques in this post will be a great help to you.
09 Sep 09
Goodreads | Marc's bookshelf: all
All (business related) books I own, or which are on my wish list
Book roundup by Seth
A few books worth taking a look at.
A wide variety of topics, but each of them are worth some of your time. Listed here in no order whatsoever, all my royalties go to charity. Books are still the best idea value in the universe.
Watching The Clock
The 'secret' reason long copy usually out-sells brief copy, and lengthy sales letters out-sell short ones is simply time. The longer the prospect stays in my store...
The more time he invests in my proposition, the more likely he is to buy.
05 Sep 09
Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? | Video on TED.com
Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com
Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think.
30 Aug 09
Two ways to hire (and a wrong way)
The wrong way first: interview someone for an hour. If you like them, have them interview three or four other people in your organization for an hour each.
You've invested five hours of your team's time, but really you only were looking for approval, because you'd already decided you liked the person enough to work with them for years.
All the evidence we've seen shows that this is a lousy predictor of future performance. And, let's tell the truth... if the first three people love the guy, are you really going to let the fourth, junior person veto him? Or is it just an annoying courtesy?
11 Aug 09
The scientific method
In most interactions, we take a defensive posture. We try to defend the brand, or our turf or our job. The problem with defense is that it's static. The best way to get smarter, to embrace and to cause change and to triumph in times of market turmoil is to adopt the scientific method.
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If you enter a conversation looking for something to test, measure and ultimately change, it's likely you'll find it. That change makes you more competitive, and you continue to cycle past your competitors. On the other hand, if you enter a conversation concerned about maintaining the status quo, it's likely that this is exactly what you're going to do.
31 Jul 09
Make the Most of Your Resources
Legislation requires publicly traded companies establish a Board of Directors to set medium and long term business objectives. A Board is the formal representation of a company’s governing body and Board members have a legal obligation to contribute to the company’s operations. But if you are not a public company, or just starting out, you should still consider setting up an Advisory Board to reap benefits that can contribute to the long term growth of your business.
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An Advisory Board cannot operate properly without including advisors who are external to and independent of the management and ownership of the business.
External talents
30 Jul 09
The Hidden Risks of Cloud Computing - Security - Lifehacker
Every day more users move their computing lives from the desktop to the cloud and rely on hosted web applications to store and access email, photos, and documents. But this new frontier involves serious risks that aren't obvious to most.
26 Jul 09
What Really Generates Referrals
So much of the literature on the subject of referrals focuses on the proper ways to network, ask for referrals, and create incentive programs for referral sources. While some of these more tactical things do indeed produce referrals for the organizations and salespeople that employ them, they are often little more than window dressing when it comes to the big picture.
Building a foundation that automatically generates referral momentum is not done through external actions – like some many things in life, you do it from the inside out. Plain and simple the most widely referred business are purely more referable.
I’ve studied a lot of businesses that easily generate referrals and they share some common internal tendencies as part of their brand and culture.
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Trust impacts how fast things are done and how much they cost. It is so much easier and less expensive to refer a business that keeps its promises.
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Nobody likes to refer a friend to a sales pitch, right? But, exposing a friend to information that might help them get more of what they want out of life, now that’s a different story.
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25 Jul 09
Linking SaaS Software Pricing to Value - ReadWriteEnterprise
Linking the value that a product or service provides to a price is an art, rarely a science. Software pricing, in particular, has suffered from this being done poorly. The old licensed-software model does not cut it anymore. Businesses won't stand to pay for a large number of software licenses they may or may not use, and then pay for maintenance on top of that.
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