Ideas and research on living a great life and having a huge impact
I am surprised and disappointed when I see parents make comments and exhibit behaviors that negatively impact their children. I, at first, did not believe it was possible or, while I heard the rhetoric, did not believe that parents were putting their kids in mental states that would damage them long term. But the more Continue Reading
A note to my daughter, currently a curious and creative nine year old, on how to be an entrepreneur and the three things you must consider. I shared this with my daughter and thought it was so practical and clear that maybe others will benefit from it. The three points are… Hard work Hard work, Continue Reading
If you are using servers in the cloud for your current and future new products and innovations, you are wasting money, creating risk, building technical debt that you are gonna have to change and transform in the next 12 to 24 months. Benefits to cloud native tech As a digital strategist, you have to look at Continue Reading
I have been a huge fan of building brand, marketing, and ultimately making sales by leveraging online social media ads. Ads is a poor word, they even call it their “ad manager” or “ad product”, but it is easier understood as a paid way to get your content in the digital feed of specific individuals. Continue Reading
How do you disrupt and build great innovative solutions in your company and your teams, whether you are a five-person startup or if you are a 100,000-person firm? The answer has been made very clear by the research and the now long list of innovative companies that we look at and can study. Salim Ismail Continue Reading
In a world where you once were pushed to be conservative and a jack of all trades it seems radical and foolish to push you away from the middle. Here is what is wrong with the middle — knowledgeable but not good at anything is dangerous. Being broad without depth eliminates your ability to ‘level-up’ in any Continue Reading
If you want to be successful in 2019 there are some very specific things that you need to do. Now, let’s think about this. 2019 starts, everybody writes down their goals. Those goals are very tactical. Some are smart. Meaning they’re smart, measurable, actionable, yada, yada, yada. That’s great. It is good to have those Continue Reading
Rethink and fresh ideas are the best. I cherish discussions and insights that are shared/learned from other industries, history, and peers as we discover new truths. Truths mind you, that just became true or finally true, and others that were formerly true. An insight that I have seen from working in the cloud and immutable Continue Reading
I find myself challenged and frustrated by the lack of a path and stagnation. I took the school to Masfers route and that only gave me some success. I learned from mentors and personal experience that there are far better ways. No, you don’t need a mastermind or an expensive package (yes I have been Continue Reading
Currently I work with a huge scale of vendors across the globe for various products — industrial, pure cloud software, and everything in between. The growth that I can achieve from building a better solution for my customers with these vendors (partners if you will) far exceeds what I can do without them. As such, I and Continue Reading