Category Archives: The People

All about the people side of business and life.

Selling the sizzle

At the Corporate Directors Forum conference in January here in San Diego, we heard from John Carreyrou, the author of Bad Blood:  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup.  I picked up the book from the gift table, and … Continue reading

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Who’s in your mirror?

By Serra Sewitch-Posey I was 20 years old and on a Greyhound bus from Seattle to Denver, for no real reason other than I had taken a semester off from Chico State and wanted to head East for once. The … Continue reading

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Pandering to a short attention span

Much of the conventional wisdom offered today about how to “engage” audiences, get your content read online, keep attention of conference attendees and not put people to sleep in a class centers around the “fact” that people have short attention … Continue reading

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Succession planning takes guts

Not many service firms approach their business with the goal of putting themselves out of it.  Similarly, not many people spend much time thinking about how they can make themselves redundant at work.  But that’s exactly what they should be … Continue reading

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