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Cloud illusions
With Google Drive having now officially entered the competition for melee which is online storage services for personal documents, photos and other stuff, this is clearly an excellent opportunity for an entirely self-serving reprise of an earlier piece in which I consider the benefits/risks of using third-party networks of computer servers for hosting and sharing your files.
Joni Mitchell, an acknowledged cloud expert, expressed ambivalence on the subject in her song ‘Both Sides Now.’
CONTINUE READING »What makes a music act great?
I recently guest posted at Joel Canfield's by-product-of-a-lifetime-of-musical-ingestion 'Know Your Music.com'.
For completeness-and-neatness, that piece should of course also be here.
Here's JC's intro and Facebook mention:
This O'Leary chap is a character.
A rebel in his own mind, he continues to swim upstream toward the book he claims he's writing about business lessons from rock.
Whether you just love music or want to spruce up your entrepreneurial menage, I urge you to read John's blog and buy his book, should he ever get around to finishing it.
Here's one of his insightful, inevitable-but-not-obvious business lessons from rock…
And now a lightly edited variant of the post…
CONTINUE READING »Who’s on first…
In ‘Who’s on first,’ another excerpt from my forthcoming book, I attempt to describe who I think is the most exciting band in the world.
Walk Off The Earth!
I have a new fave: WOTE. I confess I’m a tad late to the party. This clip, which has made them an intergalactic sensation, was uploaded WAY BACK on January 5th and has been viewed by 58 million folks in the last 6 weeks.
(That’s more than twice the lifetime readership of this blog, for those of you keeping score.)
The power of coaching.
Few would argue that TALENT is a critical determinant of team and organizational success. But just as important is having the resources to continually develop that talent, as anyone in human resources can tell you.
Yet these resources—coaches, mentors, etc.—are sometimes overlooked in business, especially in small organizations.
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