With the announcement of a sleeker, sexier new aluminum bodied MacBook Air, you might have forgotten about Apple’s other slim tablet device, the iPad. Apparently, the device has made quite the stride in the e-books and video sphere, as the iPad is widely used to consume both those forms of media. A Nielsen study on the devices [...]
When Apple’s executives took the stage in Cupertino yesterday, they weren’t just listing off the new features and products. They were giving a master class in how to design and market world-class products. Here are a few of the lessons we took home: Watch what’s working in one product line, and adapt it to your other product [...]
It is a great pleasure to publish the first entry of Bulletproof Career, Chicago Style. As the About Page of this blog notes, my goal is simple: The help readers NEVER AGAIN worry about getting the best opportunities, enjoying financial peace of mind, and succeeding in gut-wrenching and crazy times. What I’d like to do [...]
After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010: Mitch DitkoffMitch Ditkoff is the Co-Founder and President of Idea Champions and the author of Awake at the Wheel (Morgan James 2008), as well as the [...]
The “Keep Swinging” business biography byJay B. Myers ranked among the nation’s top-selling business books for a sixth consecutive month in September, according to the Inc./800ceoread Business Best Seller List. Myers is CEO of Interactive Solutions Inc., a Tennessee-based company that specializes in videoconferencing, distance-learning, telemedicine and audio-visual sales and support. Widespread interest in the story of his [...]
By Harold McGraw III and Philip Ruppel Today, it is not uncommon to hear predictions that the names of the great publishing houses will soon fall from the covers of books to the footnotes of self-published history tomes. Casual observers could be forgiven for thinking this way based on headlines on the e-reading revolution. First, Amazon [...]
On September 18th Glenn Beck was at The Pursuitsponsored by the Michiana 9/12 Coalition in Angola, IN. While there he shared the brief story of the people in town who stood up against handouts from the government and decided to instead put in more time and effort to do what is right in helping their small [...]
Activities Rule Not The Clock! It’s not that we don’t have enough time. The problem is that we have more events and activities to manage in the same amount of time. This is due, in part, to technology, the internet, and expectations of doing more with less. In a way we’ve become compressors of life, [...]