Czcommunity - czcommunity.com - CZ Strategy
General Information:
Latest News:
The classic mistake entrepreneurs make 23 May 2013 | 06:43 am
I abhor the idea of paying a guide to fish. I grew up on the northern plains and lived in the West until I was 30. I am a do-it-yourself-er. But during Spring Break, I wanted to take my two boys fishi...
Making Data Actionable 8 May 2013 | 06:10 am
“The longer I am in science, the more skeptical I am.” That line came from my brother, a pharmacogenomist in breast cancer research. I had just sent him a link to a post by Mike Loukides (http://radar...
5 Questions Every Organization Should Ask Its Customers 2 Apr 2013 | 02:14 am
Market research is often criticized and for good reason. People don’t intend to lie, but the recall of their experience with you is often distorted. Yet there are some basic questions that every organ...
Can You Innovate on a Smell? 28 Feb 2013 | 02:11 am
We’re all headed there. Or at least more women than men are. My mother-in-law resides in a memory unit at a retirement village. The other day I counted 11 folks in wheel chairs in the lounge, sleeping...
Three Degrees of Effective Networking 25 Feb 2013 | 10:57 pm
One of my goals for 2013 is to expand my network. So late in 2012, I joined Trout Unlimited, a national educational and conservation nonprofit for fly fishermen/fisherwomen. I have fly fished for 35 y...
Three Insights into Culture 7 Feb 2013 | 01:07 am
There’s nothing like a great quote or cultural insight to buzz the mind … here are three from the past two weeks: Remember Coach G? I recently wrote about the wrestling coach at my son’s middle school...
The Losing Imperative 2 Jan 2013 | 03:41 am
Two of our four kids are boys. Both wrestle. One is 17, the other 12. Both recently won their bracket in tournaments the same weekend. Neither is, or will be, wrestling royalty. (Can I say that as a f...
Visual Hammer, Verbal Nail 18 Dec 2012 | 08:59 pm
I try my best to avoid branding books. I tire of all the standard Coke vs. Pepsi, Apple vs. Microsoft illustrations. Same illustrations, same basic point. Be like Coke. Don’t be like Pepsi. How helpfu...
My Top Commitment for the New Year 12 Dec 2012 | 03:02 am
Years ago, I interviewed Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker who recently died at 86. I still remember his gracious, handwritten note on a letter that I had sent to him, asking his approval for the g...
Patience for the Platform 5 Dec 2012 | 08:15 pm
A friend is a senior veep at one of the world’s largest publishing houses. He and I met twenty years ago when I was still in publishing. We often kavetch about the future of book publishing, now that ...
