Earlier this year I was turned on to the great work of the Acumen Fund by Seth Godin. In short, the Acumen Fund is fighting global poverty by investing “patient capital” in for-profit companies that deliver goods and services …
Are you thinking deeply enough about all the “buyers” of your products and services?
The Legendary Ray Bard, Bard Press
Earlier this week I attended a conference for authors organized by 800-CEO-Read. I had the pleasure of meeting the legendary publisher, Ray Bard. If you aren’t familiar with Ray, …
Managing Change: A Real-World, 3-Step Process
In a recent board meeting someone brought up John Kotter’s 8-Step Process for Leading Change. Kotter is a well-respected Harvard Professor, author, and of course consultant on “change management”–which happens to be one of the hottest business topics in the last …
Whenever anybody signs up for my free newsletter at kevinkruse.com they get an automated email from me asking, “What are you struggling with right now?” When I set this up I had assumed managers and business leaders asking me about leadership, marketing, and engagement. To my surprise most of the …
Blaming Non-Recurring Events for Missing a Forecast
I just got out of a board meeting for a company I’m an investor in. It included a third quarter update from our CFO and President. In great detail they walked us through the year-to-date financials, including where we were “over budget” …
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life…Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” –Steve Jobs
My new article on FastCompany.com explores the idea of variable pay, and how it just might solve our unemployment crisis:
Many professional athletes have incentive-laden contracts based on performance.
Last month, NFL quarterback Michael Vick signed a new $100 million contract with the Philadelphia Eagles, making him one of the highest …
Want to Be a Better Corporate Rebel?
Do you want to be a better Corporate Rebel? Do you want to more effectively “Poke the Box” (to borrow a phrase from Seth Godin)?
Well, I’m delighted to introduce this guest post from Lois Kelly who is an entrepreneur, author, and …
Most People are Deeply Unhappy at Work
According to the Conference Board, job satisfaction is at a record low and one out of three workers are hoping to find a new job in the year ahead.
Many still find it hard to believe but money alone doesn’t lead to happiness. …
After months of speculation, it’s official.
Cisco will lay off 6,500 employees—about nine percent of its workforce—and transfer another 5,000 as part of the sale of its set-top box business to a Taiwanese company.
But what about those who don’t get cut? What about the 60,500 Cisco employees who remain in the …
I put a lot of work into the slides I use in my talks and move pretty fast when I present so I get a LOT of requests for copies of the slide deck.
Below is the link for a PDF of my core slides, but before you go clicking away …
Go Google Yourself
Go Google yourself. You know, go type your name in between quotes into Google or Bing or one of the other major internet search engines and see what comes up. I’ll wait…
Did you really do it? What came back on you is basically what your brand …
I received an email from James last week who shared how much he got from reading my book We, and he asked what other books I’d recommend. I’ve never really done a book list before partly, because it’s so hard to narrow them down (I read 50-100 books every …
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