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This week’s reflection point: We all know that the Internet is the world’s best tool—right at our fingertips—to transform our lives and improve our businesses. But the web is also the world’s biggest distraction, and one of the worst enemies of productivity. Do you leverage the web to its full potential? Or are you one of the scores of people “caught” in the web, mostly distracted by it rather than empowered by it? If you think of yourself as a...
Continue Reading >>This week’s reflection point: Far too many people have a tremendous amount of knowledge, but fail to share it with the world. Don't be one of them! It's incredibly important to "digitize" your intellectual property, manifesting your ideas in podcasts, articles, blogs, videos, e-books, newsletters, and other online media. Continue reading
Continue Reading >>This week’s reflection point: I lost my Mom 14 years ago and there is not a day that goes by that I don’t think of her and miss her. As we just celebrated Mother’s day I reflected on some of the greatest lessons I learned from her. Risk taker – She stood in lines at the age of 7 in Poland waiting to get bread for her family and then fled on foot into the forest to escape holocaust. Thinking...
Continue Reading >>This week’s reflection point: Many organizations have sterile websites that don’t really show who they are. When there’s no human interface on your site, customers can’t see the unique personality of your team. People don’t like to interact with machines; they want to interact with humans. A woman once came up to me after I gave a speech at a conference. She had seen me at the same conference a few years before. “Chad,” she said, “I noticed you didn’t...
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