[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] In 2005, if you’d purchased 100 shares of Netflix— remember that company that delivered DVD movies to your mailbox?—it would have cost you a little over $11,000. Not an insubstantial investment—stock analysts already liked the Netflix model, and investors had already priced a lot of future growth in—so…
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[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The #1 ranking consumer complaint at the Federal Trade Commission for 15 years in a row has been identity theft. And again, the state of Florida ranks first in complaints out of all 50 states— Florida has, in fact, more than 1/3 of all reported identity theft incidents…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Facebook. Twitter. YouTube. Netflix. LinkedIn. Pandora. WordPress. Amazon.com They all have something in common: they are all able to gather and assimilate a tremendous amount of information in seconds, from an immense number of sources, and turn it into revenue. Facebook and LinkedIn assemble data on their users…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] A definition of executive: Someone who has the power to put plans, actions, or laws into effect A person with senior managerial responsibility in a business organization Or, according to Forbes ASAP: Someone who wastes 150 hours per year—almost an entire month—searching for lost information. Let’s…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] As Google races to become the first company ever to reach market capitalization of a trillion dollars, a question worth considering becomes: why, exactly is Google worth so much money? It could easily be argued that selling advertising is the reason. Certainly the purchase of YouTube was a terrific business decision, with millions of…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The concept of the paperless office feels like it has been around for forever. That’s because it actually has been around nearly forever– or at least, ever since the advent of the personal computer. A 1975 Business Week article entitled “The Office of the Future” first predicted the…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher best known for his work The World as Will and Representation, said, succinctly: “One should use common words to say uncommon things.” Sounds easy enough, doesn’t it? Using everyday words–clear, concise language–to describe something important. But consider the following sentence: The amazing…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Change in routine can be scary, but it usually comes with some benefits. Myth #1: Paperless documents are not as secure as filed hard copies How hard is it to access your paper files? And who accesses them? If your answer is the secretary, you know just how…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Applications. Gadgets. Software. Appliances. Systems. Thousands upon thousands of things over the years, all calling for our attention, and all of them promising to “save time.” This has been seen world-round— recently the BBC published an article succinctly summarizing that “Technology is largely a succession of time-saving devices.”…