What would you do if you lost your job tomorrow? Chances are you would update your LinkedIn profile, dust off your resume, add your Daxko accomplishments to it, brush up on thought leadership topics in your area of experience, and start networking like crazy. I see a ton of good reasons to do that right [...]
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When I moved back to the US from France, I worked as a temp for a whole month so that I could really research what I wanted my career to be. I remember checking out seven career books from the Winter Park library. One of them, I wish I could remember the title, was incredibly [...]
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We all know WD-40, the wonder lubricant with 1,000 uses. The name stands for Water Displacement – 40th Attempt (I’ll refrain from commenting on the product naming, since that’s not what this post is about.) It was developed in 1953 by Norm Larsen, founder of the Rocket Chemical Company (incidentally the Rocket Chemical Company also [...]
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I was in Pittsburgh last week with Dave, Matt, Kevin and Anne to present to the selection committee at the YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh. I arrived early enough to spend time with Dave and Pittsburgh’s VP of Business and Information Systems, which included a tour of their newly renovated downtown branch. While there I met staff collaborating [...]
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After years of working with nonprofits, I’ve often heard their leadership say, “we’ve got to stop acting like a charity and run this thing like a business.” A few business fundamentals that we’ve seen can make a real difference in the nonprofit arena are: Strategic Planning Accountability for Staff Targeted Marketing Value-Based Selling Transparency in [...]
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As I put a wrap on this quarter’s performance planning in Sonar 6, I am excited about the 4-week session ahead (yes my friends, DAXKO’s time warp has us planning our performance again end of June, so think of this as a performance sprint!) Q1 hit us with three big setbacks, but now the Association [...]
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Lisa and I spent four days at a marketing workshop and conference this week. On day one we met an enlightened guy from Portugal, Michel Ozzello, Product Manager for OutSystems. After showing Michel the Agile board the software engineers use, he asked if we have applied the same approach to marketing. We stared blankly….”well, no.” [...]
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Been there, done that, got the t-shirt, excited to do it again. DAXKO is getting ready for another conference this week: NTEN Technology for Nonprofits in Atlanta. What strikes me as we prepare for this event is how much we have grown. Last year we went to NTEN in San Francisco, mostly figuring out what [...]
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You thought I was going to write about DAXKO’s Kick-Off T-shirt design, but…that’s not it. The Team T’s I’m talking about here came from an excerpt from “The Game Changer” that Dave G. left on my desk. The article is about building an innovation team. I like it. One of the things that hit home [...]
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Our very own Tom Patterson once told me the story of 2 shoe salesmen who were sent to the jungle. Upon arrival both men noticed most of the natives were barefoot. One salesman called HQ and said, “Whose bright idea was it to send me here? Nobody here wears shoes.” The other salesman called HQ [...]
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