

Good to Great: Gillian Responds to Rand's Answers to Hard Questions
Jim Collins never said, "Do these five things and you cannot help but create a great company in one generation or less." Gillian finds value in Collins' work.
Jim Collins never said, "Do these five things and you cannot help but create a great company in one generation or less." Gillian finds value in Collins' work.
Let me just preface this post by saying that I hate management books and business theory books and nearly everything that starts with the phrase "The Seven Habits of Highly..." That said, I got so many recommendations to read Jim Collins' book, Good to Great, that I couldn't resist. In particular, two p...
A favorite quote from last week: Every single person working in the media today who experienced the dot-com bubble in 1999 to 2000 believes that we are going through the exact same process and can expect the exact same results—a bust. It's déjà vu all o...
When is the last time a book that was relevent to Search Engine Marketing wasn't obsolete by the time it hit the printing press? For most of us, the appeal of SEM is its dynamic nature, a constantly changing environment with a relatively level playing field. This doesn't translate well to printed materials that take time to edit, review, print and distribute. With the immediacy of bre...
Every month, I have at least a dozen people tell me that I need to write a book. The SEOmoz blog is great, they'll say, but a book has the power to connect with an enormous audience, and besides, they'll continue, I need something to read on the plane. I've finally come to the realization that they're right. Despite my frenetic schedule, packed with travel, clients, in-house projects, e...
What would happen to your business if you were not able to tend to it tomorrow? Is there important information, key to the success of your business, that you have not communicated to the people who would inherit it or keep it running until you are able to return? If there is important information of this type then you need a contingency plan. Without a plan some of your most impo...
Don't think that everything about SEO and building websites can be found on the web. Over the past two years I have read many books about these same subjects that were printed on paper. So if paper books are off your radar screen these days here the BEST three from my long reading...