Bill Sanders

"I also have a suspicion. It’s just a hunch, but I suspect most of us are experiencing cynicism fatigue. The overwhelmingly bad news springing from the news media leaves most people with two options: either they become cynics who drown themselves in their own pleasures, or they try to make a difference. Most of the smart people I know are little a bit of both, but they fight their cynical side. They try to work on something of worth at work and in the world. There is no better way to start doing this than to practice the golden rule on an hourly basis." - Bill Sanders

"It’s happening. We’re taking over. The Millennial generation, which is 80+ million strong and larger than the Baby Boomers, has started to fill management roles at companies big and small. You could say our journey into the upper ranks isn’t going smoothly." - Bill Sanders

Interesting take on Gen Y attitudes - Bill Sanders

Humans are good at a lot of things, but putting time in perspective is not one of them.  It's not our fault—the spans of time in human history, and even more so in natural history, are so vast compared to the span of our life and recent history that it's almost impossible to get a handle on it.  If the Earth formed at midnight and the present moment is the next midnight, 24 hours later, modern humans have been around since 11:59:59pm—1 second.  And if human history itself spans 24 hours from one midnight to the next, 14 minutes represents the time since Christ. - Bill Sanders

The Eulogizing for Apple has been going for a while now – Where’s the innovation?! They need a bigger screen! It’s too expensive!! And with the announcement of the new iPhone 5s and 5c, it’s just gotten louder. - Bill Sanders

Nice work on the data & great info to have. - Bill Sanders

Whenever a customer feels misled, mistreated, ignored or coerced, profits from that customer are bad. As my colleague Rob Markey and I explain in The Ultimate Question 2.0, bad profits come from unfair or deceptive pricing. Bad profits arise when companies shortchange customers by delivering a lousy experience. When sales reps push inappropriate products onto trusting customers, the reps are generating bad profits. - Bill Sanders

lture that emerged in the 60’s semiconductor business when competitors would help each other solve bugs in their chip fabrication process. It continued in the 1970’s with the emergence of the Homebrew Computer Club, and it continues today.  Since I teach, I tend to prioritize - Bill Sanders

"Rosenberg will be the first one to tell you that a lot of failures, false starts and tough breaks got him there.  He shared these hard-won lessons in a lecture to students graduating from Claremont McKenna College, his alma mater, and we’ve brought ‘Rosenberg’s Rules’ to you." - Bill Sanders

Don't text while driving. Drive while driving. - Bill Sanders

Nothing is permanent. As in life, things change. And so is true in the world of business. The models and practices that have been taught for generations are tested in a time when customer and employee behaviors and resulting expectations are evolving without official study, strategy, and systematic transformation. - Bill Sanders

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“Everybody has a million ideas, and very few are original,” said Butman, “but the idea entrepreneur is really good at expressing the idea — writing, speaking, creating images. The two major [ones] are writing or speaking. Books, blogging, tweeting, speaking doing conferences, interviews, lectures, webinars, live events, that sort of thing, and videos, of course.” - Bill Sanders

How many billable hours does it take to get a startup funded for the first time? Not as many as some attorneys may wish, thanks to the Series Seed Documents, created by Ted Wang, a partner at Fenwick & West LLP in Mountain View, Calif. These legal and financial forms help startups and investors figure out how to structure seed-stage equity investment deals without doing frustrating amounts of original research in disciplines that are not their own, Wang explained. - Bill Sanders

Subtle and not so subtle shifts in the Four P's of Marketing... - Bill Sanders

My friend Thomas White on the similarities between writing and entrepreneurship... - Bill Sanders

File under important - the issues discussed here, from fiat banking to what's right and wrong with bitcoin are key issues in our ability to hold on to the wealth we create. - Bill Sanders

“In order to feel comfortable among educated people, to be at home and happy with them, one must be cultured to a certain extent.” - Bill Sanders

hyperphotos - Bill Sanders