Decades ago, Peter Drucker pointed out the arrival of what he called “knowledge workers”, whom Drucker suggested might need to be thought of more as volunteers than workers. Despite this early understanding — foresense — of where things were headed, many...
“What is dangerous is not to evolve.” That’s a quote that I included in my first e-book. It’s from Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon. In an excellent recent blog post, Jason Fried offers “Some advice from Jeff Bezos”, which expanded my appreciation for Bezos’...
Big data analytics is big now in the digital world. Take a moment to think about all the data being collected somewhere every minute about people’s transactions, purchases, complaints, bookings, cancellations, preferences and requests. The chance to harness all...
In my last post, I reported on comments made in an interview by two senior Facebook leaders (one the Chief Operating Officer, the other a board member) regarding the company’s critical need to monetise its one-billion-member base. I noted that Facebook (at...
Facebook has been under enormous scrutiny of late. Of course, there are those who track the site ferociously, either as ultra-keen Facebook members or as journalists who have been assigned the Facebook “beat”. Then, there is the investing world, which has...
