Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
The core problem with working longer hours is that time is a finite resource. Energy is a different story!
What Sales Teams Should Do to Prepare for the Next Recession
The current economic expansion is long by historical standards, and thus the risk of recession rises with each passing month. Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results. In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. But these periods also present opportunities for well-prepared companies to take advantage of the turmoil and gain share.
5 Things Highly Productive People Do Every Sunday That Most Others Don’t
Highly productive people do things differently than most people. They have specific habits, routines and systems in place that enable them to be highly effective and efficient.
When the Heir Apparent Is the Wrong Choice for CEO
Large companies devote plenty of attention and resources to succession planning, yet a PwC study finds that $112 billion in shareholder value is lost annually because companies pick the wrong people to lead them. In our CEO transition work across a wide range of industries, we found that in more than half of the 110 cases our firm assisted with during the last two years, the “obvious” choice was not the candidate most likely to succeed in the CEO role.
Can Lambda School Become a $100M Business? A Growt...
This is Part 1 in a series deconstructing Lambda School’s growth. I have no affiliation with Lambda — I just think it’s an interesting business.
When I graduated in 2014 with a 4-year marketing degree, I realized how little I learned that was directly applicable to the needs of employers. It wasn’t until spending an entire summer taking online courses that I landed my first job in the tech industry. Since then, I’ve been deeply interested in any novel approaches to education. From MOOCs to coding bootcamps, I knew there must be a better way. That’s why when I recently heard about Lambda School, I was intrigued.
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.