Entries from January 2012
My friend Franklin Servan-Schreiber delivered a speech last week in Houston at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, and will speak on Tuesday at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh about the final weeks of his brother, David Servan-Schreiber. Co-founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and […]
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Tags:Anticancer·David Servan-Schreiber·Dying of Cancer·Franklin Servan-Schreiber·Not the Last Goodbye
The huge success of Walter Isaacson’s book, Steve Jobs, shows the scope of our fascination for one of the top industry visionaries ever. While most people have come to realize the meaning of Steve Jobs almost in retrospect, for entrepreneurs starting in the eighties, he was already a thought-leader, and the Macintosh was already a metaphor for entrepreneurial audacity. […]
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Tags:Bill Gates·Enchantment·Entrepreneurship·Guy Kawasaki·NeXt·Pixar·Steve Jobs·The Macintosh Way·The Style Macintosh·Walter Isaacson
“What are words for if not to inspire the hearts, minds, and actions of our employees and customers?” Brian Solis asks this before listing a series of buzzwords that operate as “crutches for characterless engagement,” and are “indicative of how businesses see (or don’t see) employees and customers.” His advice is simple: Take a moment […]
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Tags:Brian Solis·Engage or Die·Groubal·New Communications·Pierre Levy·Social Commerce·Social Media Marketing·Social Networks·The end of business as usual
Notoriety used to give you a chance to be immortalized with a postage stamp, but “now every single one of us has a digital stamp.” This is the opening statement of Erik Qualman’s new book: Digital Leader: 5 Simple Keys to Success and Influence. While Qualman’s previous book, Socialnomics*, analyzed the new challenges and opportunities […]
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Tags:Digital Influence·Digital Leader·Erik Qualman·Glass House Generation·Social Media·Socialnomics·The Facebook Effect