I’ve recently come across this wonderful gem of a website called Personal MBA - Do It Yourself Business Education: Mastering Business Without B-School. The theory of this website is that you don’t need a B-School ejamacation to learn the lessons and principles of strategery and leadershippery. The site is dedicated to teaching you the invaluable [...]

I’m a little behind on my blogging. I was wrapping up my old job and started a new job this week. This week’s favorite links features sites that I found useful to me and therefore hopefully to my readers as well:

How to Easily and Inexpensively Create Eye-Popping Video Ads
Nine Signs of an Effective Blog Post [...]

The Hagakure, written by Tsunetomo Yamamoto in the 18th century, is thought to be one of the most authoritative documents on samurai values and code of conduct. It was secretly circulated for the next 2 hundred years until in 1906, it was published. It is said that the Japanese ruling class was greatly influenced by [...]

Yelp.com, for those of you not in the know, was started by 2 former PayPal employees. It’s a website that features reviews of local businesses submitted by users of the website. Yelp has some great social networking features as well as a reputation system that encourages users to stick to the site and submit more [...]

A video pod cast by Harvard Business.org. Paul Michaelman interviews Marshall Goldsmith, executive business coach and Harvard Business blogger Marshall Goldsmith.
Really good stuff with good takeaways. I’m too cheap to go to MBA school so I settle for watching these kinds of things. Enjoy. Marshall makes a really good analogy about having to think like [...]