New Year’s Resolution: An Open Mind

Here is the thing, most of us (myself included) fall into the trap of if my friends and my friends’ friends don’t do something, that translates into nobody does it, and vice versa.

I hardly ever click on any ads from Google AdWords, and I don’t know of anybody who enjoys seeing advertisement next to [...]

Credit

If you don’t expect to be blamed when something goes wrong, then you don’t deserve the credit when everything goes right.

My Southwest Story

I got the “your trip is around the corner” email today and realized that I have made a major mistake of flip-flopping the airports of my trip. With the trip less than 4 days away, I called Southwest hoping that they could help, expecting that the flights are probably all sold out by now.

It [...]

The Most Awesome 450 Page Presentation Ever

I am not sure why I am sharing this with you except it’s simply awesome!

Thoughts on Ideas

With very few exceptions, no great idea has ever been invented by a large group, decided in a meeting or approved by a committee.

The world is filled with great ideas, business related or otherwise. That’s why I never hesitate to share mine, because ideas without proper actions are pretty much worthless.

I scoff [...]

The Groupon Story

It’s hard to imagine before the Internet-age that a business could grow from $0 to $1 billion (yes, that’s with a B) in just over 2 years, but Groupon did, as the fastest business in history to ever reach that $1 billion plateau.

An amazing story to say the very least.

Here is Groupon’s CEO [...]

What WikiLeak Has Taught Us

Here is a great article from Six Pixels of Separation on 7 Lessons That WikiLeaks Teaches Us.

While the legalities and moralities of WikiLeaks are still up for debate, there is no question that our world, especially the online world, is changing fast.

Take it for what it’s worth, if you see your business’ dependency [...]

Leadership Rules

It’s impossible to put yourself into the shoes of the CEO of a fortune 500 company, and it’s really easy to criticize when you see something is wrong from the outside.

I am not going to do either.

But we can argue that the importance of leadership is often overlooked. I mean, there is [...]

It’s Not Okay!

Last week, Mashable posed this question: “Is it okay if a viral video online, who claims that it’s made by real people, is a hoax?”

The answer, of course, is no.

The reason we don’t talk about TV commercials, or any other forms of advertisement is because the video (or audio or picture or writing) [...]