Twenty years ago, I developed a powerful approach to negotiating that goes beyond “win-win.” It involves starting by offering the most and asking for the least. It works extremely well, but I was unable to explain why until I read Wharton professor Adam Grant’s excellent new book Give and Take. Adam identifies three types of…
Business Insider analysts Henry Blodget, Marcelo Ballvé, and Alex Cocotas put together a deck on the future of Mobile for BI Intelligence. In the last year, the number of smartphones sold blew past the number of PCs sold. This year, there will be at least twice smartphones sold as PCs sold. Tablet sales, meanwhile, are growing even faster than smartphone sales.
Digital strategists have the task of determining how to use mobile in an effective manner moving forward.
And PC sales are actually shrinking.
"Is marketing dead?"
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/08/marketing_is_dead.html?awid=7112405493693098204-3271
If you want to be more successful — at anything — than you are right now, you need to know yourself and your skills. And when you fall short of your goals, you need to know why. This should be no problem; after all, who knows you better than you do?
And yet your own ratings of your personality traits — for instance, how open-minded, conscientious, or impulsive you are — correlate with the impressions of other people (who know you well) at around .40. In other words, how you see yourself and how other people see you are only very modestly correlated.
