For the month of October, I have decided to highlight a company as the Disruptive Leader of the Month. NComputing has been on my radar for awhile as one of the few for-profit startup companies that are targeting emerging markets and the digital divide, but I had not looked at them as a serious [...]
Seth Godin just wrote a great post on the importance of choosing who you work for (e.g., your boss, your company). And the photo he used is priceless (I used the same on the right). If you haven’t seen Office Space, then you have to run to Blockbuster or get on Netflix and rent it. [...]
The initial $100 price tag of the XO Laptop from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) created quite a furor when it was first announced three years ago. At the time, the cheapest laptops were hovering around $400 to $500.
This subject has been rehashed many times in the press and the blogosphere, but reading [...]
A previous boss of mine, Jason Chen, who was running Intel’s sales and marketing business at the time, had a habit of saying profound things in brief, simple ways. Maybe it came from a Chinese background steeped in Confucianism, which has many short but wise phrases and proverbs.
He once told me that the best kind [...]
I’ve been a fan of Jason Alba, author of I’m on LinkedIn, Now What? and CEO of JibberJobber for awhile now. He turned his tough experience of looking for his next job into a career in itself: author, business owner, and renowned expert on job searching and career transitions.
His most recent blog post, [...]
