Rethinking Conferences

While vacationing in Vegas, I thought a bit about conferences and conventions. Do we really need to attend them anymore? The answer lies in one’s reason for attending the conference. If you go for the face to face networking, hands-on interaction with the vendors, client meetings, or breakout sessions, then you should probably still go. [...]

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Innovation and Inspiration

Achieving World Class Performance This isn’t really news, but I feel compelled to post it since some of the readers of this blog are managers of people. The post “Why is Innovation Such a Hot Topic? Two Sides of a Coin” by Irving Wladawsky-Berger mentions his attendance at IBM’s annual partner conference. IBM hosted Bert [...]

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Learning in Las Vegas

My wife and I are in Las Vegas right now and have learned a few things about an industry leader trying to fit into a niche market. We’re staying at the Westin — we love Starwood hotels — since we like the experience and wanted to try a place off the strip. I confess that [...]

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My Weekly Wrap Up of Great News

This post is online (below) and in the attached MP3 file. Let me know what you think of it. I’ve collected quite a few articles to publish in this week’s news post. Most of the news comes via print magazines, but some is online. This is also the first post that will include audio commentary [...]

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Podcast Test

This is my podcast test. The file is located here: http://corpmemo.com/podcasts/test.mp3 FeedBurner has a SmartCast service that should enable this to work for me (and anyone else). The link for my fee there is http://feeds.feedburner.com/Corpmemo

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