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Jodi Smith wasn't always so outgoing. In fact, she was so shy in high school that she knew "maybe three people out of a class of more than 1,000" when she graduated. Heading to college, however, Smith made the conscious decision to reinvent herself, "just to see what would happen." Well, her experiment seems to have worked. After a decade  More...
Advice from your peers in other industries can provide new perspective and immediate solutions to pressing problems. Steve MacGill, CEO of Peersight Online, discusses why in this guest post.  More...
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." The quote is attributed to the Nobel prize winning physician Albert Szent-Györgyi. How do you look at something different? One method I'd recommend is to "scamper." Yes,hopping around like a small animal or child *is* fun, that's not what  More...
What do you do when someone who's joined your team has a different set of ideals or perspective?  More...
Though most managers understand intellectually that time is their scarcest resource, few make the effort to gain a strategic perspective on how they spend their hours each week. Still fewer make a regular practice of keeping track of how the priorities they say are most important jibe with the way they actually spend their time. “Those we label na  More...
One way of benchmarking online success is to beat your competitor traffic wise. Pandia takes a look at online services that try to measure the traffic of web sites.  More...
Why do budgets often bear little direct relation to a company's long-term strategic objectives? Because they don't take enough into consideration. A balanced scorecard augments traditional financial measures with benchmarks for performance in three key nonfinancial areas: 1. A company's relationship with its customers. 2. Its key internal proce  More...