A friend wrote: “… and I thought Google was overvalued at $150!” She was implying that it must not have been overvalued, since it’s currently selling for so much more. I decided to whip out my amateur finance knowledge and see if she was right. Here’s a sample of a few different ways of valuing a stock. [...]
Stever and CJ Coolidge continue their discussion about getting traction in business.
CJ Coolidge and Stever Robbins discuss how to get business traction.
My recent Harvard Business School Working Knowledge column discussed how we’re trapped inside our beliefs. It even got mentioned on the Boston Globe BLOG. I say that “thinking outside the box” means thinking outside your beliefs.
But this is just darned hard to do! It’s not natural to sit around analyzing yourself to figure out what [...]
A friend just pointed me to this post on the Boston Globe where I’m being referenced. In this world of the Blogosphere, information moves fast! Shortly after posting my BLOG entry on oil and gas prices, I got a phone call from the PR agency for a major oil company asking about the entry. Cool [...]
Yes, I confess. I did the whole “undead” thing last week at the Cambridge Zombie March.
The Zombie March is just what it sounds like. A couple of hundred people dressed up as zombies and shambled a couple of miles across the city of Cambridge.
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Ever notice how people don’t change their minds? Even when confronted with compelling evidence against their position, they cling to their position and emotionally shred the evidence rather than face the notion that their beliefs are wrong. As one high-ranking political player told me, “the world is too complicated to worry about whether policies produce [...]
In my mastermind group, an HR consultant happily announced she just concluded a project standardizing job descriptions across a multi-thousand-person company. In that moment, she named herself my nemesis. For my job is helping people rise to their own strengths, and step outside the neat little boxes that give such comfort to the Standardizers of [...]
On “The Daily Show” the other night, John Stewart hosted an oil industry expert talking a bit about current oil prices. She was a very happy woman, and her engaging, bubbly personality was just charming enough that she could repeatedly evade John’s questions without being too obvious. I thought I’d step in and answer her [...]
It was worse than a Stephen King Novel. Eight hours from Milan to Boston. A newborn in the seat to my right. His 2-year old sister two seats to the right. One in the seat in front of me. Two other children (same family, apparently) in the row behind. One more, two rows behind me. [...]
