Milestone: Ten Years and a Thousand Posts
It all started in the summer of 2007, when I was sitting on a camping stool in the warm and salty water among the rocks in the little sleepy fishing village of Prizba on the island of Korcula in [...]
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Posted Making Channel Sales Work – Ten Tools to Create a World-Class Third-Party Selling Program
It’s actually surprising that so few books are written about the challenges of establishing, operating and growing an indirect sales channel. Especially when you know that over half of the [...]
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Posted Going Global on a Shoestring
My next book project, Going Global on a Shoestring (International Expansion in the IT-Industry on a Small Budget), has been on the launch pad for many years but I have had to yield for other [...]
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Posted Is There a Recipe for Success?
If you read business books, the answer seems to be a clear yes. The authors all seem to have found and can now pass on a recipe for success to their reader. Look a little deeper, however, it is [...]
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – And Why Things are Better Than You Think
I became acquainted with Hans Rosling in 2007 when I first saw the video from his TEDtalk. In addition to the immensely entertaining presentation, it also reminded me of the bias we exercise in [...]
The Moral Quandaries Entrepreneurs Face
Navigating the road to successful entrepreneurship isn’t easy, and shortcuts that seem like great ideas often lead to bumpy roads. Instead of focusing on profit at any cost, entrepreneurs that [...]
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Posted Management Gobbledygook and Consulting Magic
One of the best books I read in 2017 was The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig. Phil Rosenzweig delivers a devastating attack on all self-help books and management gurus, who claim that their [...]
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Posted New Release: 5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley – The In-depth Case Study of What Became Microsoft’s First Billion Dollar Acquisition Outside the USA
TBK Publishing® today releases the business biography 5,460 Miles from Silicon Valley – The In-depth Case Study of What Became Microsoft’s First Billion Dollar Acquisition Outside the USA. [...]
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Posted What Does It Cost to Be Wrong?
What did the failed Newton project cost Apple? What did the OS/2 mistake cost IBM? What did it cost Blackberry to stick to its keyboard? What did it cost Nokia to ignore Apple’s iPhone? [...]
Why Writing Book Reviews Is to Your Advantage
It’s hardly surprising that, in my capacity as an author, I think book reviews are important and meaningful. My main message in this post is not how to please the authors, but how it can [...]
