I am fortunate to have the opportunity to speak to groups week in and week out. Sometime 3, 4, and 5 times in a week. Even though I talk about the same topic every time, I find myself delivering the message in different way. I don’t know if that’s because I am getting bored of the topic,…

Sometimes I feel sorry for paper. What did paper do to us to make us hate it so much? If you don’t believe me on the level of hatred, then test it yourself. Tell people in your office that filing cabinets are going away. Then brace yourself for the joy and unicorns and butterflies and dancing.…

For the last year and 1/2 I have been given many opportunities to talk about The 8 Pitfalls as well as The Argument to Automate…. which I am very happy about. Recently I have had a desire to go further with the material. When asked to speak with a group I am usually given an hour. That hour…

I have had a wonderful run with the new book these last few months. I have had the opportunity to speak at four events and countless webinars. I have learned many things, but a big lesson that I have learned is that change in the US is difficult. I don’t know why this is, and I must confess…

I like to think of myself as a “shades of gray guy”.  By that, I mean that I don’t think that situations and people can be explained as “this or that”; in other words black or white. There are just too many moving parts for everything to be cut and dry. I don’t know whether it is human nature…

Fusion 2012 is next week in Nashville TN… I am looking forward to seeing all my old friends and making some new ones. I was talking with a non-accounting (yes I have some of those) friend of mine last week. I told him my travel schedule and he asked why I was going to be in Nashville.…

I tell this to people all the time… I say it so much that I can’t remember if it is true or if I am just being funny. (Well) True or funny – I must confess that I wear a pocket square… there the cats out of the bag! I have had somewhat lengthy conversations with…

Thanks everyone for the great response to my last post about comparing renting and buying a home to software. I have had some really exciting conversations on the subject… I also had someone send an article, that although it is about houses; the message and learnings are very useful to software, society and culture. Read…

If you have been around for a little while, then you may remember the old conversation that everyone seemed to have an opinon on about 15 or 20 years ago. The conversation was around whether it was better to  buy or lease computer hardware. At the time, it seemed to me that each person polled had a different…

Since 1997 I have been involved with dot-coms or software as a service, and now I go and create a title of a blog like this one! With the publishing of my new book, “Argument to Automate – How Innovation Can INSPIRE – Not Fire” my eyes have been opened (wide) to the power of the message,…