Business Continuity Guide
Timing is Everything
—Dr. Denis Waitley
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Iron Sharpens Iron — King Solomon
When Tanya and I meet, which we do on a regular basis, we are a force of nature. After ten years, we have yet to scratch the surface of what is possible in the world of business and finance. I am convinced that nothing, absolutely nothing is impossible for us.
Coming any day now, a new SmartMoney series from Tanya
—Everyone should be growing their own SmartMoney Tree!
Some kind words for an amazing friend and daily inspiration
The North Star and Tanya: Steady as the day is long. And then some! We met in 2010 and become the best of friends and colleagues on a bunch of adventures. Her ‘headline’ on LinkedIn is spot on, “Humble * Motivated * Industrious * Go-Giver.” In fact, within weeks of meeting her, I asked to speak at the launch of my startup business accelerator. She is my personal Pindar and when we meet as we do almost every week, it truly is...
Larger Than Life — Bearing Gifts
Some of the post 2020 Pandemic businesses and processes that will not return to pre pandemic norms:
— Brian Roemmele (@BrianRoemmele) April 10, 2020
-Health clubs
-Nail and hair salons
-Massage and body work
-University lectures
-Dance clubs
-Public pools
-Full floor open office plans
-Company cafeterias
-Most startup offices https://t.co/3sVGYx0YQH
I met Brian last year because of my involvement with the VoiceFirst space. Which is actually a term he coined. How cool is that?!
Brian Knows
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Enough said about that for now.
What about business and more importantly, what about YOUR business? Is your industry on the endangered species list? May I offer some advice?
Did you ever hear the startup story about the team that was accepted to an accelerator, but was basically told, and I am...
I’m grateful to be chosen by @amazon as a leader in the voice industry pushing the boundaries on off-screen time games for family’s and friends. Stay safe all 🤜🏼 pic.twitter.com/ZOkSSG2vkT
— Zai Ortiz (@zaiortiz_) April 9, 2020
As a result of being in the VoiceFirst space, I met Zai Ortiz and his business partner [and a lifelong hero of mine] Nolan Bushnell last year in Tennessee. They introduce their game for Alexa, St. Noire ↗. It was at Project Voice event [actually the first three years the event was called the Alexa Conference but today it covers most major VoiceFirst platforms] where Agile Audio Dashboards and Voice Metrics, LLC introduced SurveyLine ↗ for Alexa.
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Flashback to the Spring of 2002
I was living in South Carolina doing quite a bit of traveling for my consulting practice up and until that day, Tuesday, September 11, 2001 and as a result, had to close my consulting practice eDivision dot net when the travel and hospitality industries tanked.
I told parts of this story in my book:
Purple Curve Effect — SKI’s Throughput on Command
Plus, there is this One Sheet I wrote for marketing efforts for the browser-driven SaaS application that allowed me to say a lot without revealing any details or trade secrets. Remember, there were no smartphones in 2002. Every project should have a code name, right? Right! Prowler. The image is one of the first drafts of what would become the Chrysler Prowler.
This simple document has been one of my favorite memories of that adventure. Additionally, I and one of the founders became friends and have been on...
One That Got Away
Before I share my first startup, or the first workforce procurement [Hiring and Recruiting] solution that I helped craft, let me tell a short story about my second project in this space beginning in February 2009.
Say What?
This startup failed to gain traction [financing] after a year and was shutdown. It was a great domain name though, right? It and the phone number in the video are no longer mine.
This is just one of my four major projects in this space. Today, I am feverishly launching voiceFirst.careers
Give it a once over.
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Open Source Leadership
What can you do in just 90 Days?
In July 2012 I got this idea, why not recreate the international business journal [an old fashion print magazine in full color] I created and launched in March 2001. TOCreview. But only as an ePub for the new Apple iPad Magazine app. So I found a partner, art director, editor, contributors, and a master Adobe InDesign production team. Yes, all in just 90 days.
I love this cover from the 2nd Issue. The first issue went live one year to the day after Steve Jobs passed. Our business entity was known as GoLive Magazine and I assembled a reseller network to help create amazing content in very short order. In fact, one of the magazines we produced went on a tear and for the next 60 months, month in and month out, Life’s Journey magazine appeared on the iPad. Quickly we added Android, then Kindle and finally Nook platforms. What a...
Or, should that be bizarre or better yet, bizarro?!
The Trifecta of Startup Authors: ESR, Bob Young, and Guy Kawasaki
All gathered nicely into one amazing work:
Linus Torvalds’s style of development – release early and often, delegate everything you can, be open to the point of promiscuity – came as a surprise. No quiet, reverent cathedral-building here – rather, the Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches (aptly symbolized by the Linux archive sites, who’d take submissions from anyone) out of which a coherent and stable system could seemingly emerge only by a succession of miracles.
These are exactly the perfect times in which to revisit this amazing collection of thoughts if I say so myself. And I just did.
How many of us are using a Linux driven computer today? Most. It may be a notebook like my Samsung Chrome 3 running...