Get a nonprofit exec talking about membership, and you're sure to hear about their struggles. They might tell you that young people aren't joiners, and aren't willing to pay to belong. And yet all kinds of membership organizations are...
I was chatting with a friend whose company sells SaaS solutions to marketing executives, and he was lamenting the turnover among senior marketers across organizations of all sizes. Like him, I have noticed that there seems to be a higher turnover rate among...
The other night, I attended an historic gathering of five deans of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University: Arjay Miller, Robert Jaedicke, A. Michael Spence, and Robert Joss discuss the school’s past and its future, with Dean Garth Saloner...
A few years ago, we hosted a "back to college" party, complete with foosball, beer pong, pop-a-shot, tacos at midnight, and a vintage Asteroids machine. For those of you who don't remember Asteroids, it was a wildly popular arcade game in which...
SaaS continues to be a hot topic, especially here in Silicon Valley. But widespread adoption in the enterprise hasn't quite arrived. While there has been some significant success, notably with companies like Salesforce.com, Concur, ConstantContact,...
