Yesterday marked Facebook’s 4th annual F8 Conference – a conference that brings together developers and entrepreneurs to collaborate on the future of personalized and social technologies. The f8 conference starts with a keynote speech by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg followed by various breakout sessions concentrating on specific topics. The f8 conference is known for being [...]
This will be a quick, and hopefully easy to remember, social media tip for anybody that uses or manages social media for their company during a natural disaster. If you want to stay on our good side, want people to be good brand evangelists, and overall want people to know that you are aware of [...]
I’m still figuring out exactly how my blog is going to take shape. Granted, I participate in a bunch of social venues (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, my company blog, etc.) but I wanted to somehow integrate my personal and professional lives together and write about it. However, right now my fixation has been my running. [...]
Leaving the Home Depot last night I watched with amusement – and horror – as a car coming off the Interstate almost rear-ended a car slightly ahead on the off-ramp. Based on what I could see – and I had a front seat view – it was totally due to the fact that the driver [...]
Having contemplated making a few changes in my life I thought that this approach to “change management” was extremely insightful and tremendously manageable. Hopefully, others will feel the same. Let me know what you think and what approaches you employ to make change manageable. via BrassTack Thinking
I took the past week off because I was spending time with a real-life business leader; my brother-in-law and our collective families. However, because this week marks the close of the first season of Undercover Boss I wanted to share my insights and perspectives as I have for the past few weeks. Week 9 of Undercover [...]
Week 7 of Undercover Boss featured Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE) a privately owned, and largest (22 properties in 9 states), family owned themed-entertainment company that operates several theme parks and tourist attractions within the United States. They share a number of characteristics with Week 5′s featured company: Churchill Downs. Not least of which is a [...]
This weeks Undercover Boss captured my attention for a different reason than weeks past. Sure it’s more of the same (I still like the personal stories), but because they featured a company pretty close to where I live, I felt a personal obligation. In fact, I know exactly where their corporate offices are – I [...]
After a disappointing absence (err… unexpected repeat last week – presumably due to the Academy Awards) Undercover Boss resumed this week for the fifth episode. This week the series profiled Churchill Downs Inc. executive William (Bill) Carstanjen. Churchill Downs Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is a $500 million dollar company that owns and operates world-renowned [...]
37-for-37: The Best Way to End the 2011
The goal was to run 37-miles on my 37th birthday. I did it to prove to myself that I could, to push my personal boundaries and because I could.