Blog
I am much more of a fox than a hedgehog. No, I don’t blog every day, but it’s fair to say that I’m pretty prolific. On this site, you’ll find a boatload of posts on higher education, technology, platforms, communication, collaboration, analytics, and other topics. They generally fall into the following buckets: insights, provocations, musings, predictions, and rants. I write more about big ideas than listicles and snackable content. Finally, I inject humor often into my posts and despise jargon. Click here to see an interactive word cloud and tree map of my posts’ tags.
Disruption Visualized
An amazing and interactive graphic on how things change.
Big Data: Necessitating New Partnerships in New Media
The trend is unmistakeable.
Partners Can’t Do It Alone: The Case for Removing Internal Obstacles
A few obstructionists in key places can derail even the most promising new tools, projects, and products.
Cross-Platform Data-Driven Mobile Blah Blah Blah
Do you understand what this company does? Me neither.
A Better Way to Vet Potential Partners, Part II
Don’t see a documented case study? Big red flag.
Audiobook Version of Message Not Received Is Now Available
My seventh book is now on Audible.
Jargon and the End of AOL
Surely there has to be a better, clearer way to announce this.
Too Big to Ignore: Chinese Version
Breaking through in Asia.
Communication Failures at the Collision Conference
It’s obvious that most technology professionals have a long ways to go.
My MIT Sloan Management Review Interview
Are you part of the e-mail problem?
A Better Way to Vet Potential Partners, Part I
Thoughts on applying greater rigor during the vendor-selection process.
The Long Term Has Never Been Shorter
Why we need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
The First Rule of Platforms
Thoughts on first-mover advantage.
PGI Interview on Message Not Received
Ineffective workplace communication confuses people and causes them to tune out.
Marketplaces Are Not Platforms
Branding alone doesn’t make it so.
Yahoo’s Platform Problem
Unlike the Gang of Four, zero innovation comes from the outside.