September 2010 Posts

As the world gets faster, “smaller” – and older – so do the demands of consumers and employees. An interesting note is that consumers ARE employees, and vice versa. We spend a lot of time defining and drawing lines between [...]

Leadership is a hot topic right now. At Tribe, we hear many large clients talking about the need to teach leadership to people at all levels of the company. In small companies, like Tribe, for instance, we need everyone to [...]

Tribe is working on a Six Figure Hairdresser app for the iPhone and iPad. Over the past few weeks Tribe has been working with celebrity hairdresser Harry Wood of Van Michael Salon to develop training materials for his Six Figure Hairdresser [...]

Great post: “Are You Crazy Enough To Be An Entrepreneur,” by my friend and colleague Jennifer Bull, on an interesting article in Sunday’s New York Times, titled “Just Manic Enough: Seeking Entrepreneurs.” Plus a good-natured dig at our possibly-crazy-but-definitely-on-fire friend [...]

A story jumped out at me on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times Business Section: “Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs.” It talks about the very thin line that separates genius from mania, and how you have to [...]

One man’s work is another man’s fun. I remember my father once remarking that if you told a bunch of grown men with reasonably high incomes that they had to spend the afternoon out in the hot sun trying to [...]

What makes an office a good place to work? Nowadays we call it employee engagement, but when I was a kid hanging around my father’s architectural firm, it just looked like people having a good time doing work that would shape their careers

Daniel H. Pink’s latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, is as smart and thought provoking as any of his others. (Free Agent Nation happens to be my personal favorite, but A Whole New Mind is great too.) In [...]