The Power of Email
As a geek it might be easy to dismiss email as a communication method as old-fashioned and something people mostly ignore. I mean, everyone prefers to get their daily RSS fix or (nowadays) read about your stuff on Twitter. Nothing could be further from the truth. Growing a list of email newsletter subscribers is by far the most effective method of reaching your audience. There are a couple of reasons for this. Firstly, it is way more personal. Most email list software lets …
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I have found that return and ridicule are highly correlated over the years. We have made more money on things that were highly ridiculed than on any other cohort. When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.
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I've been reading a great book, "The Power of Habit" , and it outlines another story of failure and how tackling that was turned into an opportunity to improve company culture.
When Paul O'Neill, later to become Secretary of the Treasury, took over management of Alcoa, one of the United States' largest aluminum production companies, he made it his first and foremost to tackle the safety issues in the company's production plants.
He put rules …
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…Tough's How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character not because it's still fresh in my mind but because it's a book that I hope will be read widely. Readable, thought-provoking and inspirational, it's a book for anyone with an interest in the relationships between environment, learning, character and life prospects. That should be most of us.
For the benefit of UK readers I should mention that I had to import it from the …
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