See if you’ve ever had a first day at a new job that went something like this: You spend a half hour or hour with someone in HR, signing papers. The person gives you a company manual and may go over a few essential rules. You meet up with your supervisor and walk around greeting […]
Taking the pulse of social media marketing platforms is like trying to take the pulse of runners in the middle of a race. You get one reading, then runners change lanes and pass each other, and the next time you get a reading it’s different. That is very close to the situation with Facebook, Snapchat, […]
As we look toward the coming year, I think it’s a good time to take a “long view” of how we are assimilating Millennials into our companies. The position of Millennials in the workforce is a topic often covered in business blogs like mine, and that’s a good thing because it’s an important issue. Exactly […]
By Cliff Ennico ’Tis business plan competition season once again. This time of year I spend lots of time traveling around the country judging business plan competitions at colleges and universities. The participants are either undergraduate or business school students who form “teams” and compete for cash prizes or (sometimes) face time with me and […]
Grab your boombox…or your Sony WalkMan! Cassettes are back! Have you heard the news? Many of today’s top recording artists are issuing their new tunes on the venerable cassette tape. Over the last decade, you probably heard how many music aficionados have been buying up vinyl LPs, but right now the big thing is cassette […]