Building Habit Forming Products

Nir Eyal distilled years of research, consulting and practical experience to write Hooked: A Guide to Building Habit-Forming Products. He founded and sold two technology companies and taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing appears in the HBR, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. An excerpt Read More …

Lean Sales and Marketing Engagemnt

This is a presentation based on a full day workshop on developing a Lean Sales and Marketing Engagement. I view sales and marketing from a standpoint that it can no longer operate in a vacuum. It has become as much as an input as an output and intertwines across many of the departments within the Read More …

Preparation, Execution, Evaluation

The last two Business901 podcast featured Adam Zak, founder and CEO of Adam Zak Executive Search. Adam is an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management, consulting, financial and operations management and talent acquisition. He co-authored the book, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in Read More …

A Great Team Starts with Great Conversation

You can have a bunch of smart people surrounded by a great product or service and still fail if the conversation flounders. Seldom is it a smooth road along most paths and the path is often filled with tension, conflict, and even positive things can result in misunderstandings. Craig Weber wrote a book this past Read More …

Secrets on Learning about People, Part 2

This Business901 podcast is a two-part series with Adam Zak, founder and CEO of Adam Zak Executive Search. He is an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience spanning the areas of management, consulting, financial and operations management and talent acquisition. He co-authored the book, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Read More …

Control Points and Handoffs

Most of us agree that hand-offs generate it a great deal of waste both in lost opportunities and mistakes. In most Value Stream Mapping  projects, it is the first area that we concentrate on. In Sales, the dreaded hand-off may be the most difficult part of sales team jobs. Many sales people are very possessive Read More …