Zuckerberg is a man so certain of the success of his quest that he can afford to ignore the latest attempt by Google to disrupt the social space. He displays a confidence similar to a card shark who has devoted a prodigious effort in studying every possible move by his competitors. And who now feels safe with the knowledge that every card is marked.  This type of naive fiction has worked in the past, and it may work still.  But ...

“50 percent of people who believe in objective morality have received a speeding ticket, compared with 60 percent of people in general.” Based on a survey of 348 people who believe in objective morality and 547 people in general – from Correlated.org Correlated.org is a new site that helps discover unexpected correlations between seemingly unrelated things. It’s fascinating how they develop the correlations and it is quite ...

What I learned in 2010 can be summed up in one individual Except for reading the occasional year end articles (notables include Kotadia, Maggie Fox, McAfee) I typically skip the tradition of trying to summarize an entire year in 10 bullet points. The Enterprise 2.0/Social Business space is just too dynamic with many starts, stops and do-overs.   Yet in 2010 I noticed the impact that Technology/Brand Evangelists are having on their ...

Normally I leave the sales punditry to those trying to sell telemarketing services or the next greatest sales methodology.  At times these sales to Sales pitches feel like the latest management fads I so often witnessed while working at A.T. Kearney.   But occasionally a “sales" strategy” article motivates me to act. As he often does, Mark Suster wrote a very intriguing article on what early stage companies need to scale their sales ...