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Bookseller Leadership Mistakes

Coaching Tip

The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2013 . That executive decision began the downfall of the company. Unfortunately, Barnes & Noble Inc.

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Harnessing Time

Coaching Tip

Modern culture, with all of our technology and time-saving gadgets, has left us with a distorted view of productivity. ebook at $.99). Self-coaching guides for Career Women: Women and Time (ebook for $.99 Tosi on April 1, 2013. Cell phones, email, and even open office doors can invite unwanted interruptions.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. Who would have picked hydraulic fracturing as a disruptive business/technology breakthrough in 2002? Individual empowerment. Is HR your best badgemeister?

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Ditch the Notebook in 2013

Harvard Business Review

My ebook, Work Smarter with Evernote , can show you how. How do you want to use Evernote to work smarter in 2013? Better still, Evernote can help you stay focused on your top priorities by keeping your work organized, and make your work more impactful by helping you share it with the colleagues who need it too.

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Learning in a Connected Age: Leveraging Social Media

QAspire

Then a revolution happened and all literature went online – Wikipedia democratized information and knowledge is now available in form of eBooks, Blogs, Online Communities, Social Media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, Online Video resources and now MOOCS (Massively Open Online Courses). Stay Tuned!

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Grassroots Leadership by the Rising Middle Class

Coaching Tip

They are technology-savvy and use social media like Facebook FB +0.89% and Twitter to broadcast information and organize demonstrations. Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2013. John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership (ebook editions). John Agno: Can''t Get Enough Leadership (ebook editions).

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