Incentives Beyond Compensation: Monetary vs Non-Monetary
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’re a small to mid-size company you’ve no doubt lost at least one employee to a larger company who offered compensation that you could not match. As frustrating as this is, you do have some options to retain people that don’t require significant out of pocket cost. This short article from
Are You MARGINAL(al)?
Reading Time: < 1 minute In the late 1990s’ Internet bubble, many people were seduced into believing that profits didn’t matter, only growth. Time has a way of making people forget painful lessons as Professor Scott Galloway reminds us this week in his “No Mercy, No Malice” blog. He looks at Uber, WeWorks, Lyft and
“The Meritocracy Trap”
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s been said that “money doesn’t buy happiness but it does buy a better class of problems.” For the so-called “elites” of our society who’ve achieved success in commerce or the professions, that success comes at a much higher personal price than that paid by earlier generations who reached the top.
The Very Rich Read Differently
Reading Time: < 1 minute Scott Fitzgerald once remarked that the “very rich are different than you and me” and supplied a long list of reasons. If he were writing today he might have added that the rich read differently to that list. “Successful people know they are what they read” according to this brief posting from
A Great American – Herb Meyer – RIP
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Great American, RIP Vistage, the international peer group organization for CEOs and KEY executives is truly fortunate to have hundreds of subject matter experts who bring expertise and wisdom to its C-Level Members. One of the most prominent was Vistage Speaker Herb Meyer who passed away recently from injuries suffered
Great Thinkers Who Had Spectacularly Bad Predictions
Reading Time: < 1 minute None of us would like to have every prediction we’ve made posted for public review. But regardless of how wrong you’ve been, you’re in good company. Check out these 29 spectacularly wrong technology predictions made by some of the most famous people in history who show that getting a one or
Queen Mary’s Annual Visit
Reading Time: < 1 minute If it’s early summer, it’s time for Mary Meeker’s (aka “Queen of the Internet”) annual report on internet trends. Meeker is a partner at VC firm Kleiner Perkins and was named one the “The Ten Smartest People in Tech” by Fortune Magazine. Her annual report on the internet is eagerly
Week of May 13, 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutes The “Swiss Army Knife” of Health Mattress companies tell us that since we spend up to one-third of our lives sleeping, a mattress purchase is one of the most important investments we can make. After you watch this 19 minute TED Talk on sleep, you’ll not only take the selection
Week of May 6th
Reading Time: 2 minutes Black Swans…or Gray Rhinos? In recent years we’ve heard the term “Black Swans” to describe events like the 2008 real estate crisis: events that are supposedly not foreseeable. Policy strategist Michele Wucker’s TED Talk “urges us to replace the myth of the ‘black swan’ — that rare, unforeseeable, unavoidable catastrophe — with the
Week of April 29, 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutes “There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought” Laurence J. Peter Author, “The Peter Principle” ——————————————————— Required Reading-The Death of Retirement During the Great Recession of 2008, many people were afraid of going broke. Now at the height of one of the
