As Jessica Stillman noted in yesterday's BNET1, young job interviewees are failing in basic interview etiquette -- you know: texting on their mobiles, chewing gum, casually dropping f-bombs; the sort of stuff us 40-somethings tried to get away with in our high school social studies classes. One...
Indulge us while we toot our own horn. The New York Enterprise Report, a publication aimed at helping small businesses grow, has singled out Geoffrey James's Insight blog, Sales Machine. In the article, "Five Blogs That Can Help Your Sales," Nigel Edelshain says: "This is a serious...
Two of our Insight bloggers, BNET1's Jon Haeber and Sales Machine's Geoffrey James have recently written about trust, each from a different angle. In "Three Reasons Why Trust Matters Online," Haeber noted that people are more and more skeptical online than they've ever been, that search engines...
Americans seem increasingly worried about immigration. A 2006 Pew Research Center poll suggested that 44 percent of Americans believe that immigrants today are unwilling to assimilate – you know, learn English and pretend to like baseball more than soccer. That fear – or rather the reverse of...
Once, back in my consulting days, I was pitching a client in London – and choking terribly, blathering on about how my agency could help make the prospective client into a "thought leader." Fortunately, a friendly member of the client's team was somehow able to make...
