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Comment on The Tribe by MaRS Blog – Innovation and Commercialization in Canada » Blog Archive » Building teams: Tribes rule!

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:11:44 +0000

[...] are a tried and true form of self-organization for humans. This post, “The Tribe” from infoChachkie, explores a recipe for building a balanced core team by drawing on the tribal [...]

Comment on Conforming To Your Customers’ Realities: Your Stakeholders’ Perceptions Matter by Past Is Prologue As New Industries Emerge | infoChachkie

Past Is Prologue As New Industries Emerge | infoChachkie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:06:32 +0000

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Comment on Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer by Past Is Prologue As New Industries Emerge | infoChachkie

Past Is Prologue As New Industries Emerge | infoChachkie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:00:42 +0000

[...] ability for advertisers to track the effectiveness of their campaigns, as discussed more fully in Managing Your Cost Per Customer. However, as the Internet advertising industry matured, it became populated with traditional media [...]

Comment on Small Ideas, Big Benefits by Past Is Prologue As New Industries Emerge | infoChachkie

Past Is Prologue As New Industries Emerge | infoChachkie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:00:27 +0000

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Comment on Jedi Mind Tricks That Can Drive Sales At Your Startup by shawn

shawn — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:17:27 +0000

excellent post! Will incorporate in my consumer offering.

Comment on Humble Pride –Steadfast Resolve Is Vital To A Startup’s Success by Conforming To Your Customers’ Realities | infoChachkie

Conforming To Your Customers’ Realities | infoChachkie — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:11:53 +0000

[...] viewed him and his team as naïve, slightly arrogant hippies. By adopting an attitude based on Humble Pride, Digital Research could have taken advantage of IBM’s ignorance. In 1980, IBM was the [...]

Comment on Personal Pitch by Conforming To Your Customers’ Realities | infoChachkie

Conforming To Your Customers’ Realities | infoChachkie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:17:37 +0000

[...] short answer is that he failed to conform to his Stakeholders’ realities. Few mistakes would have such wide-ranging implications in the business world over the [...]

Comment on The Author’s Dilemma – Why Most Business Books Suck by Doug G

Doug G — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:47:41 +0000

Love this. I’ve become fully adapted to buying business books and reading 1 to 3 chapters then setting them aside.

Most really seem to be articles that are extended to book length. And, being designed to “sell”, they follow formula not brilliance.

That being said, a few have been quite influential to me. I kicked off my marketing career with “Competitive Strategy” by Michael Porter. Of course, that’s a very difficult and deep book. The typical “book pub market” would never let that one out. But his depth is what made it compelling reading.

Comment on Limit… less: Ignore Limits – Focus On Opportunities by John Greathouse

John Greathouse — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:19:51 +0000

Michael,

I couldn’t agree with you more. Entrepreneurs tend to see the glass as half-full, even when it is totally empty.

Comment on Small Ideas, Big Benefits by Limit… less | infoChachkie

Limit… less | infoChachkie — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:21:37 +0000

[...] that make the most money realized that the world is not comprised of limitations. As described in Small Ideas, Big Benefits, an entrepreneur’s world abounds in opportunities and successful entrepreneurs learn to recognize [...]