Posts Tagged ‘corporate culture’

Sleepless nights

If you wake up in the middle of the night, what do you do? If you’re still tired—like any normal human being—you’ll try to fall back asleep. And there’s the catch—you’ll concentrate on trying to fall asleep. In other words, you attempt to return to the previous state you were in. I learned a trick awhile back. Instead of trying to fall asleep, concentrate on staying awake. In most cases, you’ll be asleep again in five minutes. There’s a business…>>

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Can leadership be this simple?

There’s been so much written about leadership and internal culture and building the team you need for your business. I’ve been guilty of over-thinking (and writing) about this as well. It’s a buzz topic—an easy thing to debate and dote on. It can also be a distractor, a smokescreen for procrastination.

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Translator Chats: Digital Education

We’re hoping this will be the first in a series of a different kind of blog posting style. A lot of discussions at Translator happen over IM, so we figured, why not share in the same format? We’re all about transparency right? Interested in your feedback on both the style and the topic! First up… digital education. Enjoy!

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Leadership in times of trouble, or tornados.

Leadership is hard to find. It’s not that it’s not out there, but true mentor worthy leadership is rare. Why is that? Where does it fall down? I discuss some of my thoughts here in my first video blog post.

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Nestle didn’t fail at social media

The Nestle fiasco that recently happened got a lot of attention from the world, and the social media community in particular. If you aren’t aware of what happened, check out this recap. The headline is “Nestle fails at social media.” The reason they failed? Clamping down on logo usage, defensive and controlling behavior, inattentiveness to consumer concerns.

Yes. Agreed. Guilty as charged.

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