Matt Hopkins Retired early but still writes about business, marketing, personal development and technology.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. – Friedrich Nietzsche You have this great idea. It’s massive. One of those $100M ideas. Are you sure that you have it 100% right? Positive? What if you were 90% right – that would be ok wouldn’t it? […]
I don’t listen to the radio. I dislike radio advertising for both the interruption, volume increases, and the overall quality. I also don’t like DJ’s generally – with the possible exception of morning radio shows. I just want to listen to the music – perhaps with some news every now and then. I listen to my own […]
Sometimes, I think that businesses have the wrong attitude towards competition and the “competitive landscape”. I’m a very competitive person, but I don’t care about my competition – not in the way other companies seem to obsess about theirs. Perhaps it is where they see themselves and their attitude towards business strategy. Leader or Pack […]
Yesterday, there was news that LinkedIn was hacked and six million passwords leaked on the internet. There were two main concerns for users: 1. Someone could log in to your LinkedIn account and make contact with your connections. LinkedIn is primarily a business network site and so the concern was with the potential damage […]
I’m finally reading Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. I say finally because its been on my reading list for a couple of years now. This is a great book for anyone interested in business strategy and although many of the references are out-dated, the information is still relevant and compelling. There […]
Personalisation is the big trend. Your window on to the internet will be different from mine – if not now, soon. This has been happening for years, but the momentum is increasing – especially with the rapid growth of social media. Companies are able to learn more about you than ever and the new dimension […]
I posted back in February on how to schedule tweets and why. The main point was that if you read “shareable” content in batches, then you don’t want to overload your twitter stream and end up spamming your followers with loads of tweets in a short period of time. It is far better to spread these […]
Although perhaps not officially a “generation”, the term Generation F is being used to describe the wave of people entering the workforce who have grown up with social networks and Facebook in particular. There’s been a lot of written about these Millennials (the official term) and their attitudes to work but the impact that social networking has […]
I often hear how hard people are working – how much they are trying. Sometimes, I think it is easy to confuse activity with action. Don’t get me wrong – a high work ethic is essential. It shows character. It should be admired and celebrated and encouraged. But there is a difference between being busy […]
There’s a lot written in blogs and in books about Values – both corporate and personal. Zappos, for example, created its 10 core values as the foundation for the entire company – their culture, their self-image, the benchmark against which each employee is measured. Values become the collective morale compass for a business. But […]