PUTTING THE BUSINESS IN BUSINESS
with The Answer Guy
THE ‘BUSINESS’ PART OF BUSINESS
Why is Penelope Trunk in Therapy?
Who is Penelope Trunk? Why is Penelope Trunk in Therapy? And why on earth would you care one bit about Penelope Trunk's psychological health? https://youtu.be/6JRGddbBxyM I'll start with the answer to that first question. I have no idea who Penelope Trunk (really) is,...
What IS Cloud Hosting?
Earlier this year, we changed hosting companies for the first time in thirteen years. I wrote about that change here, and pointed out how boring a topic web hosting is. But it's important. So much so, we're getting ready to launch a whole new kind of web hosting at...
It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It
If I brought up the old axiom "it's not what you know, it's who you know", most of my readers would understand the line instantly. Sure (and I'm not minimizing this one bit!), what you know matters; without an expertise in ... something ... your business has very...
Pirating The Walking Dead
What happens when movie and TV piracy stops? And what if it's a sign of a problem with media popularity? Well, watch out; people have stopped pirating The Walking Dead. The folks at Axios have pointed out that Game of Thrones piracy is reaching numbers so high it's...
Business Change Highlights
The Problem with Salary History Questions
One of the biggest problems in business change and business process has always been the way we do recruiting. And the era of Internet job postings has actually made this worse, but that's a discussion for another day. https://youtu.be/mWQt55uTEFE The good news is that...
Women Can’t Negotiate (Really; Women STILL Can’t Negotiate)
Women can't negotiate. Go ahead; yell and scream and call me a sexist. Problem is, at least one quite-successful woman business investor and executive agrees. She phrases it not that women can't negotiate, but that women don't negotiate—and cites examples. But in the...
In Search of the Expert Generalist
Elon Musk is one of the most successful men in the world. It's amazing that one person can have as many top-flight successes as he does, and if you're anything like me you've thought at least once about where Elon Musk's almost magical run comes from. Ready for...
Is There a Google Monopoly in Europe?
Is there a Google Monopoly? In Europe? Today? If that three-question question seems awkward and clumsy it's because ... it is. And that's the point. The European Union has handed down an almost unbelievably large fine because of what it sees as anti-trust violations...
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