As Jim Kimble often says, no one cares about moving thousands of brown boxes a day – right up until they don’t get out the door on time, then everyone cares! Jim is the COO at Jasco Products and he…
At some level, I am tired of talking about leadership, and am sure many leaders are sick of reading about it. This is an extremely over-talked about subject. I retired from doing speeches about leadership in general some years ago…
The following article is a guest post from Vaughn Rachal of Future Point of View. It originally appeared on Scott Klososky's blog Technology Story. There's no denying that technology is perpetually accelerating in both performance and function! The changes we've…
Scott Klososky shares his thoughts with the American Staffing Association on how the staffing industry can use technology to hone its competitive advantage and position itself for future success - a preview of his highly anticipated keynote presentation at…
I have started to see articles that state a common theme. It is that all products and services will eventually commoditize to the point where it is virtually impossible to distinguish them by price or performance. This result is driven…
If you have no idea what Snapchat is, I urge you to load it on your mobile device and try it out. This application is sweeping through the teenagers of the U.S. and seems to be the next darling of the…
Social technologies provide a powerful collection of marketing tools, and they are inexpensive compared to other forms of marketing. Companies including Starbucks, Nike, Pepsi, Dell, Dirt Devil, IBM and JetBlue have already seen tremendous results from social marketing methods, and…
There seems to be a built in negative filter for most people when it comes to the concept of humans being dependent, or "addicted" to technology. They assume that anytime people are unnaturally attached to a device, there must be…
At every level, technology is now a game changing tool - and a great weapon of destruction. I suspect there has been little in the history of humanity that has more ability to change our lives, careers and fortunes save…
Leaders by their very nature are under pressure to have advanced intellectual and emotional intelligence. In today’s economy, they better add one more – VQ, The Vision Quotient. The pace of change is speeding up. Each and everyday, the competition…
I was reading an article the other day and someone posed a question much like the title of this post, and of course it sent my mind off into a catastrophe of ideas. In the Matrix movies the Internet became…
One of the foundational aspects of social technologies I talk about is the ability for a person,or an organization to use new tools to harvest huge amounts of information from the Websphere and pack it into our brains. I often…
I often comment that technology is just a tool. It’s not magic, nor mysterious, it is just a tool. I do admit that some aspects can be complicated, and if one adds together all the technology we face in life,…
Social media/networking and the collection of tools they have spawned have moved solidly into the strategy toolbox for organizations. If you want to be the Zen master of social tools, then first understand the need to implement elements of social…
What is an eCommunity? It is a question I hear often, and it is usually followed by an answer that does not do more than scrape the surface of this powerful tool. The term eCommunity has been used to describe…
Being the kind of person that is forced to think big thoughts for a living, I am always on the hunt for new things to learn. It is a knowledge economy after all so the smart people win and…
Leaders, by the definition of the word, should be out in front of their charges guiding them as to the next move to make, or the next place to go. But what happens when leaders fail to lead? What happens…
OK, I am only going to write about this one time, and then I am going to let it go. I start every presentation I give on social technologies with the same slide, and each time I review it, the…
For some reason I have had these visions popping into my head of the things in life that technology has pretty much erased from the face of the Earth. If you are under 25 years old, this post may not…
Powerful, passionate and creative, Scott Klososky is one of the first successful Internet entrepreneurs and is a highly sought-after speaker. He shares stories from his experience of building successful dot.com companies in good and hard times and shares personal stories…
