Thom Singer Interview: Effective Professional Networking
Video interview with Thom Singer about networking and the power of business relationships, especially in entrepreneurship and social media
Archive for August, 2009
August 31, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Jet Blue’s Strategy Behind the All You Can Jet Pass
The Atlantic (which I absolutely love), posted their opinion of Jet Blue’s All You Can Jet pass, which suggested that it was designed for business travelers among other things. As much as I love them, I think The Atlantic got it completely wrong. I posted the comment below, but I thought it was worth reprinting [...]
August 14, 2009 | 4 comments | View Post
How To Book an Awesome Travel Itinerary
You may have heard about JetBlue’s “All You Can Jet” promotion. You may have thought, “I could do that, but I don’t know where I’d go.” You are not thinking strategically! As you may know from reading Chris Guillebeau’s blog, Art of Nonconformity, the world is full of places to go (and he has been [...]
August 14, 2009 | 22 comments | View Post
Books I’m Reading: August 2009
I’m a big fan of books. You may know how much I love my RSS feeds, but I love books at least ten times more. For all of the incredible information on the internet, there are some things you just cannot learn online [yet]. When I read I tend to focus on timeless themes or [...]
Financial Modeling: Excel Best Practices
If you are like me, you are ready to jump into the constructing the financial model, but DO NOT IGNORE THIS POST! I guarantee that it will take you more than twice as long and you will make twice as many mistakes if you do not follow these simple best practices. A fully functional financial [...]
Financial Modeling: Key Concepts
The focus of this series of posts is to teach you the fundamentals of financial modeling so that you can apply them to any number of areas. This method of financial modeling is different that many presented on the internet in that it is fully circular, meaning that updating any variable will affect all calculated [...]
August 7, 2009 | 6 comments | View Post
The Strategy Blog Manifesto
Introduction Welcome to The Strategy Blog’s Community. We are a diverse community of thought leaders who seek to make the world a better place for all through the understanding and successful study and application of strategy. We gather at TheStrategyBlog.com to discuss ideas and strategies in a safe, open and respectful environment. To support the [...]
August 7, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Inbox Zero
The “Boiling It Down” posts are a series of executive summaries of popular ideas in strategy. Their objective is to briefly introduce you to the concept and provide you authoritative resources to read further. Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero philosophy is great and why can best be summed up when he says, “It feels great to [...]
August 6, 2009 | 3 comments | View Post
Using Game Theory to Negotiate Salary
Video: Utilize game theory tools to get an upper hand in salary negotiation
August 6, 2009 | 4 comments | View Post
White Squire
A significant stockholder sympathetic to management that would make the transaction more difficult for the undesired acquirer
August 6, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
