Posted on 05/19/12 by Jim Herrera
As a a baby boomer entrepreneur, time is money. We all know that building a business requires that you need to master 4 things: Package Positioning Promote Partnership One of the best ways to do that is to partner with really smart, successful people. To that end, I’ve partnered with Bill to produce the first Make [...]
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Posted on 05/08/12 by Jim Herrera
Hello world! As many of you know from reading my past blogs and attending my trainings and workshops, I’ve been an entrepreneur, small business advocate and business executive for over 30 years. In that time, I’ve had the privilege of working with some of the brightest (and not so bright) business executives. I’ve also [...]
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Posted on 04/25/12 by Jim Herrera
Greetings! Part of my educational background is the study of Latin. Yes, Latin! I know, I know it’s a “dead” language and nobody uses it. Why bother? Well, it turns out that the culture that used the language has a significant amount of knowledge and wisdom that can be applied to today. So, from time [...]
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Posted on 04/17/12 by Jim Herrera
What is it? Pinterest is a social network that allows “Pinners” (users) to collect and share things they find interesting. Think of Pinterest as a collection of digital photo and video albums. Users “Pin” (collect) things they find interesting into their personal “Pinboards” (albums) and that content is then sharable with other “Pinners” (Pinterest users), [...]
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Posted on 12/01/11 by Jim Herrera
Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong — a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness. The following is his presentation at the TEDConference. I find it intriguing because I’ve often wondered why more people aren’t [...]
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