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Kindle Books becoming more and more popular

We’ve noticed over the last few months an interesting trend – sales of our Leading and Managing in Silicon Valley book have substantially shifted from the hardback version to the Kindle version. When we started out, we’d only occasionally sell a copy on the Kindle, and almost all the sales were of the printed version; [...]

Interstices by Mark Moulton

Excellent Leader is really pleased to announce the publication of  Interstices, the collected poems of Mark Moulton.  Mark’s really an amazing guy – a talented artist and poet, an expert in the growth, management and financing of non-profit organizations, an expert in sustainable development, a successful contractor and manager (he built up Habitat for [...]

Notes on social networking as a marketing tool

Commonwealth Club meetings are never ending source of interesting ideas.  This time I went to a session on the use of social networking by InForum group, hosted by Sarah Lacy. It focused on practical ideas for small businesses. Some interesting points that came out of were:

Make Google be priority #1 Make sure google can [...]

Leading and Managing in Silicon Valley now on the Kindle

Do you want to read our book on a Kindle or on an iPhone? We’ve got Leading and Managing in Silicon Valley available from Amazon now in Kindle format.  It was a lot of work to figure out how to render it correctly, but we did it. Check it out!

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Strategic Planning Processes

I’m currently organizing and running a strategic planning process. It’s a fun experience because while I’ve participated in many such sessions, it’s the first time I’ve gotten to plan and facilitate it all myself. Normally for such a thing one hires a consultant of some kind; except in this case that’s my role. So I [...]