As a marketer and small business owner, I have to make a lot of decisions. Sometimes the decisions are easy, or easier, like should I have a website or not, or should I blog or not… actually, now that I think about it, those decisions weren’t really all that easy to make. When I stop…
Last week I defended my dissertation. The long (eight year) journey is finally over. Some sources say half of all Ph.D. students don’t complete their doctorates. Another source cites a 2004 study by the Chronicle of Higher Education, suggesting the attrition rate is closer to 37%. I’m sure it depends on the institution and the…
As you no doubt already know, the great challenge for a small business owners is not setting up a website, or even writing the first blog post. It’s coming back time and again to write subsequent blog posts. I have a good excuse for neglecting this basic obligation of a small business owner: I’ve been…
Here’s something I hadn’t really thought much about. I always thought I was a pretty competent decision maker. I know some people have trouble making decisions. And it isn’t surprising to me that change efforts may stall because we avoid making decisions. This is because the decisions we must make often involve trade-offs: In order…
We always hope that our employees are all working together to make our workplace better. But sometimes they don’t all seem to be rowing in the same direction. One or two employees seem to be paddling away from the mothership. What is up with that? Heather Huhman of Come Recommended wrote a Huffington Post article…
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.– Albert Einstein