Dave Taylor Explains How He Uses Social Media for Business
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Bill Vick, my colleague and co-author of LinkedIn for Recruiting and Big Biller is, as his many colleagues in the recruiting industry know, a true early adopter and avid user of technology. So it was no surprise to me […]
What to Know About Doing Business in China
My friend and colleague, Professor Lonnie B. Hodge, has written the first in a series on doing business in China.
He is less than complimentary about the books and other guides out there already:
We have bookshelves stacked full of expensive kindling labeled “how to do business in China” that we will later use to heat […]
RIP NDA
I’ve signed a few non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) - or confidentiality agreements - in my time, one quite recently.
But while I can bring to mind plenty of good deals I’ve done with people on a handshake, even a virtual handshake, I can’t recall a single good deal that has started with signing an NDA before we […]
Professors Report on Ways to Deal with Online Attacks
I think we can take it as read that any contemporary senior executive has at some point considered the possibility of his or her company having to deal with criticism, even a concerted campaign of criticism, online. It would be interesting to know whether many of those executives have taken that thought to the next […]
Spring Clean Your LinkedIn Profile, Part One: Basic Makeover
(Photograph: Spring Blossom by Steve Knight)
It’s not actually Spring for me, it’s Autumn here, but for most of the people who read this blog it is Spring, traditionally a time to clean house. This post is about applying that thinking to updating our profiles on the social networking site LinkedIn.
The thought was prompted when I […]























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