Friends of Dave: Stuff I Learned This Week
Happy New Year! Finally trying to get the newsletter thing off the ground. Here's a round up of some cool stuff I read over the holidays that made me smarter. Enjoy!
XOXO,
Dave
For The Managers...
Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace - YouTube — www.youtube.com This @simonsinek interview about managing #Millennials digs deep to root of issue. Really insightful >> https://t.co/gf5E6fFdbN #leadership
The Absolute Last Open Letter to Millennials | Inc.com — www.inc.com Warning: Trophies Will Not Be Awarded for Reading This Post!
For the FinTech Geeks...
Alpha Theory: 2017 NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS — blog.alphatheory.com By Emma Vosburg and Cameron Hight Every year, people make New Year’s resolutions and every year, people break them. Creating positive habits that reinforce resolutions is the difference between the people that keep their resolutions and those that break them. Creating process that works for you is the key to forming habits that lead to accomplishing your goals. You must...
For The Marketing Geeks....
Mirage Content is The Reason Your Company Blog Isn’t Generating Leads — growandconvert.com MUST read for startups & mkters >> Mirage Content is Why Your Blog Isn’t Generating Leads https://t.co/wUTYCQjMGo via @mattermarkdaily #CMO
Almost 70% of CEOs now expect CMOs to lead revenue growth | VentureBeat | Marketing | by John Koetsier, TUNE — venturebeat.com This is why focus on #CX so critical >> ~70% of CEOs now expect #CMO to lead rev growth https://t.co/RnM1f45BGd #leadership #marketing
For the Data Geeks...
Putting data back into the hands of owners | TechCrunch — techcrunch.com Think about it. Why should platforms own data YOU create? >> Put data back into hands of owners https://t.co/k2JQlzNXGc #bigdata #API #IoT
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For you readers...
After all of the craziness in 2016 left me a bit punch drunk, Santa brought me this great book to read in 2017 to help me understand how we got to this weird place. Check it out:
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis — www.amazon.com
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.