Archive | November, 2011

What Picasso can teach you about pricing

This post is about charging what you’re worth, with a great lesson on pricing from the Late Pablo Picasso. Too many products or services are seen as being very similar to others and as a consequience are treated as commodities. When that happens your prospects and customers will shop around and whoever charges the best price for that product or service tends to win the business. But if you can set your product or service apart from all the others out there, you can charge what your product or service is really worth […]

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32 Great Articles From The Past Week

Here are some links to some of the great articles I’ve enjoyed over the past week. As an avid reader and someone who keeps abreast of the latest thinking, I consume vast quantities of information each week from a wide range of carefully curated sources. Now, time permitting, I hope to share some of my personal picks each week via this “Linkfest”. I do hope you enjoy these articles and find some of them useful and interesting.

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A Sister’s Moving Eulogy for Steve Jobs

In this post I want to share with you the most touching of the many tributes I’ve read following Steve Jobs’ sad passing. It was a eulogy written and delivered by his biological sister, Mona Simpson, during his memorial service on October 16, 2011 at the Memorial Church of Stanford University. What can I say about this amazing eulogy? It was one of the most powerful, touching, intimate and heartbreaking pieces I’ve ever read. It is a must-read piece that almost ranks right up there with Steve’s own famous Stanford address […]

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5 Hidden Habits of ineffective people

Do you ever allow yourself to get distracted? Do you ever allow others to set your agenda for the day? Do you ever find your day being consumed by tasks that take you no closer to your end goal or objective? Do you know which tasks are important for reaching your goal? For that matter, can you even state your goal? I ask because I read a superb post today on Quora by Chris Wake the founder of Spotwag a new startup in the San Francisco Bay Area. His piece is titled “Hidden Habits of ineffective people” and I couldn’t resist sharing it with you […]

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