May 2020
Time Management Tip – Make Your Own Pizza
The internet is inundated with time saving hacks and suggestions. Search time management and literally millions of links will return, providing you with an infinite opportunity to waste time evaluating hacks, tips, and top ten lists. And yet, making your own pizza will not be among them. Until now. Given that pizza is one of …
Sales Fundamentals: The Minimum Viable Answer
Product people have this thing they refer to: Minimum Viable Product, or MVP. It’s the product that you roll out to early-adopters in order to prove that you have something that works, that solves a customer problem and that people will buy. It is an answer to a problem, albeit a limited answer with a …
The Great British Baking Show as a Recruiting Case Study
I have a confession to make. In the midst of COVID19, I’ve managed to watch the entire canon of the Great British Baking Show. Every episode. This is no small accomplishment. The show spans ten streamable seasons of ten episodes (except seasons one and two, at 6 and 8 respectively), each episode a reliable one …
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Guess the Future
Here’s a thought experiment. Try to predict the future. The prediction can be big or small. And with COVID19 so dramatically creating upheaval and doubt, there’s a lot about the future that is up in the air. Here’s a small prediction. People will be buying TVs. Bigger ones. Huge, probably. And smarter ones, with built-in …
Chipping Away
We’ve got a tree dying in the backyard. It’s a largish flowering cherry tree, prominent and contributing significantly to our privacy, but with few leaves left and signaling that its best days are past. Dying trees invariably sadden me. I can’t help but notice them when I drive about the city, and the deaths seem …