Why Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone Is The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Career

A few weeks ago I shared a bit of personal information of getting out of your comfort zone with my private group of newsletter subscribers. I wanted to share it here with you as well and expand on it a bit. While I'm still growing, learning, and expanding my career to get to where I want to be, I firmly believe that getting out of my comfort zone was one of the most important things I have for my career but it took me a long time to realize that.

CEOs On The Run: Financial Crisis With Chinese Characteristics

As China’s economy slows down, many firms cannot service their debt obligations. This isn’t abnormal, but what is unusual is that, faced with debt issues, there has been an increasing number of CEOs and owners of borrowing companies who simply choose to disappear. The local media have coined a new term to describe these vanishing acts: paolu (running on the road).

Big Brands Got 105% More Twitter Engagement During Q4

Big brands are evidently getting much better at Twitter. The social analytics player Simply Measured today said total engagement for marketers jumped 105 percent year over year in the fourth quarter. After studying Interbrand's list of the 100 Best Global Brands from Oct. 1 through Dec. 31, it also found that brands authored 11 percent more tweets year over year in Q4. Even with the extra messages showing up in users' Twitter feeds, brands grew their followers by 38 percent during 2014 as a whole.

Microsoft dangles OneDrive incentive to boost Bing

Yesterday, Google enticed users to update their account security details by offering a couple gigabytes of Google Drive storage in return, leaving users with both a potentially more secure account and a little more storage space in their cloud account. That seems to be something of a trend for the week, with Microsoft having also rolled out some extra cloud … Continue reading

IDC's Enterprise Communications Survey, 2014: U.S. and Western European Network Priorities, Strategies, and Spending

This IDC Presentation presents the results of IDC's annual enterprise communications surveys conducted in the U.S. and Western Europe, which provide a valuable insight into the attitudes, concerns, and plans of qualified network and telecom decision makers across both regions.The two surveys cover a combined sample of 1,124 Western European and 1,044 U.S. respondents.

Windows 365 trademark hints at subscription-based updates

Offering Windows 10 as a free upgrade for most Windows 7 and 8.1 owners seems like a generous move, but Microsoft might simply just be carving the path for a new way users will be getting updates in the future. Redmond has just recently filed a trademark for the "Windows 365" name and, judging by its similarities with Office 365, … Continue reading

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