Are you an academic researcher who relies on self-report survey data? Even if you haven’t used it in your own project, you have probably heard mention of computer-aided text analysis (CATA). CATA offers a way to quantify text, thereby, acquiring an understanding of a text’s author. It is an interesting approach to supplement or replace […]
Let me guess: you’re easily distracted by your devices? The dings, beeps, andevil little red notification bubbles are impossible to resist. (This is bydesign, of course.) Colleagues are just as distracting. Every time someone pops their head into your office for a “quick question,” it’s as if they have a little red notification bubble glowing […]
I recently made a guest appearance on the podcast, “Tech Guys Who Invest.” The hosts Kevin and Adam are IT workers who invest in multifamily real estate and real estate notes. I, on the other hand, spend my time angel investing. It was fun comparing and contrasting our different investing domains and the audience certainly heard about […]
I’ve launched fully into my HigherEd teaching career recently, having landed my first full-time faculty position this past summer. This means lots of course prep. A new graduate course I’m prepping, Change Management and Consulting, will have four group projects for the 48 students. So, 4 groups times 12 students times 4 projects mean a […]
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In this blog post, I’ll share five techniques I’ve learned over the past year while learning how to read as a doctoral student, where I’m required to read, retain, and recall large amounts of complex information.
If you must absorb and make use of large quantities of information (everyone?), then you too will benefit from learning the powerful, but not easy, reading techniques that follow.
This is not the reading you learned in kindergarten.
“You’re building a great product—but a product isn’t a company.”
Have you ever heard this after delivering your startup pitch? What does it mean?
As an angel investor, I know I’ve given this feedback more than once after listening to pitches for cool products—but products that didn’t have a chance in hell of supporting a company.
Any occupation that requires in-depth creative thinking also requires some non-negotiable, unfettered, undisturbed blocks of time. For these makers and thinkers, focus time is the foundation of their productivity.
Ray Kroc. Steve Jobs. Evan Williams.
These powerhouse entrepreneurs have one thing in common—persistence.
Kroc relentlessly built the McDonald’s restaurant chain throughout both America and the world, in spite of stiff opposition from his own business partners.
Jobs epitomized the spirit of not giving up when he rejoined Apple as its CEO—after suffering the humiliation of being fired from that same iconic company that he co-founded years before.
You may know Willams from his work as a co-founder of Twitter. Or as the visionary leader of Medium.
But, Williams’s entrepreneurial journey started well before either of those companies.
Some clients go beyond toxic: They can become nightmares. And if a nightmare client slips by undetected for too long they can do long-lasting harm, even putting you out of business.
After years of running and advising professional services firms, I’ve learned to avoid the following nightmare clients: The low-profit client, the misaligned client, and the dead-end client.
Let’s look at how to spot each of these nightmare clients before it’s too late.