LinkedIn LinkdedIn Acquisition Creates Space for Disruptive Innovation in HR Acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft [http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-gains-link-to-a-network-1465922927] caught us by surprise. It seems to be a very reasonable move by Microsoft and plenty of people analysed it already. What I want to focus on is what it means for the world of job-related platforms in the
Knowledge 3 Online Sources of Wisdom That Never Obsoletes and Will Make Your Life Better Believe me, if you haven't known them before, you'll thank me. They're packed with extremely valuable information. They give us the chance to learn the stuff our parents and grandparents never knew and schools forgot to teach us. I've always been an
Book Your Customers Lie to Themselves All The Time If you think you should advertise the features and benefits of your product, you're probably wrong. And All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin explains what to do instead. I'm a big Seth Godin fan. Fanboy even, I admit. Purple Cow [http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/
LinkedIn What LinkedIn Could Be For many years LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com] have been building a hope of bringing revolution to the obsolete job and HR market. In recent years it seems they've settled down as being "your online CV" + "candidate search". I'll try to broaden
Book Great Guide To Building a Great (Small-ish) Business - Zingerman's Part 1 Book Review This is one of the best business books I've read. Highly recommended if you run your own company and don't plan to turn it into a corporation. If your focus is to deliver high-quality services and make it fun for your employees - it's
Book Beautiful Constraint - Read This Before The Book This is one of the most valuable business books I’ve read. And it made me mad… It frustrated me because it describes a very powerful and universal business framework, but it’s written in such a bad style that it was a struggle to read it. The Good We
Wishes 2016 Wishes I wish You define what success means by yourself. Don’t let yourself be convinced it’s about money, luxurious car, 700 page long scientific paper, a position or anything else. It’s bullshit. To be happy you need: 1. Food and shelter. 2. Health. 3. A couple of good
Work The Shippers - Responders I can understand the people who aren't responsive to the emails and phone calls because they're busy shipping stuff. Making things happen. On the other hand I assume when someone is responsive to emails and phone calls they're not doing much important stuff. But
Communication Communication is Hard... But it's Everything Have you ever re-read your email only to find out it doesn't make much sense? Perhaps you've been astonished how differently the same discussion was understood by different participants? We stumble getting our message across to people all the time. Yet most of our work and
Music Apple Music Free Trial Is Over. So Is My Subscription... Apple Music started in its current shape about 3 months ago. Its promise is to blend traditional radio with a streaming subscription service. The (Supposedly) Good: Entire Music Of The World Apple Music came into being as a result of Beats acquisition. Beats Music was said to be the best
blogging Hello World ;) Every new project requires a "Hello World!", so here's one. This is a blog of Michał Nowak. Why Blog? This blog was created out of my necessity to write. For some reason I feel a strong urge to write. It helps me think straight, it'