Brand partnerships can be a great growth strategy for businesses as small as the health club on the corner or as large as Coca-Cola. But as with dating apps, you need to be extremely careful who you hook up with. One of the most important elements to consider is size. But don’t merely look at […]
Does Spotify tell us more about the economy than the Fed or the Bureau of Labor Statistics? Should you ditch your blog and start a podcast? Are you just too darn productive? Those are just some of the questions writers attempt to answer in this week’s collection of curated content. Leadership, management, and productivity Is […]
It was a big deal earlier this year when Twitter doubled the allowable length of a tweet from 140 characters to 280 characters. But when Google doubled the length of meta descriptions from 160 to 320 characters at about the same time, the news flew under the radar – yet that change could be far […]
The new tax law and strong economy teamed up in April to deliver the best small business earnings report ever recorded in the 45-year history of the National Federation of Independent Business’s Small Business Optimism survey. Overall, the Optimism Index itself continued at historic highs, registering a level of 104.8, a 0.1-point gain over March. […]
Futurists are always wrong. That’s a rock-solid truth I’ve learned over the years. This is particularly important at our current point in human history because many of our highest profile business leaders have become futurists. This is because many of our highest profile business leaders are also technology leaders, and technological developments prompt envisioning the […]