I’ve been following Anne Helen Petersen for years, first on Facebook, then on Instagram, and now I’m a paid subscriber to her Culture Study newsletter. The prompts she poses to her readers about culture and work, and her responses to those replies, inspire me to think a bit differently about many timely topics. This conversation […]
Reading about NASA’s Orion spacecraft and its mission to the moon, the exuberant tone of the PR took me back. There seemed a real effort to make the mission seem the first step of many, to make its success a harbinger of additional successes to come, and to make the effort seem significant to all […]
In 2022, I conducted over 100 Win/Loss research interviews at Ideba for SaaS and service institutions and was encouraged to share results given high appreciation for bespoke insight presented to leadership, operations, and management. The following insights were consistent among a client base of high-profile and established tech-focused institutions (mid-size to large, all over 500 […]
Yesterday was GivingTuesday, or for those of you less familiar, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving that has been coined the global day of giving. The focus is on doing whatever is in your means to give back, whether that is volunteering, donating, or using your voice to spread awareness about a cause that is important to […]
Grifters gonna grift-the fraud of FTX and over a million customers left hanging. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63624894 Not many people like Zuck’s version of the metaverse. Shocking, I know. But hey, Roblox is rocking over 200 million daily users. https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-cut-more-than-11000-jobs-one-biggest-us-layoffs-this-year-2022-11-09/ The TikTok craze isn’t social – it is entertainment. Between Zuck and Musk, social media nosedives. But some […]
Thanks to the efforts of long-time client Mark Romano, five of the Ideba team were able to join in Hurricane Ian clean-up efforts this past weekend, in Ft. Myers, FL. We were also fortunate to be joined by Stacy Lutz from Syntellis, who showed up with her brother, and a whole bunch of tools. Per […]
With the current state of the stock market, I’ve been thinking a lot more about financial portfolios and my overall understanding of personal finances. Growing up and working part-time jobs, I learned to manage money but on a much smaller scale that focused on short-term goals with very little to no savings. It wasn’t until […]
I often get asked what drives our culture, and it’s a combination of our three guiding principles, and six maxims; developed after being inspired by the Nike Maxims. These have all stood the test of time, in concert with our focus on giving back. Guiding principles Always do the right thing by others – treat […]
“I believe surprises are great when they’re planned ahead of time.” I laughed the other day when this statement popped up during my HIGH5 personality test. I appreciate that “surprises” by definition are spontaneous and therefore not “planned ahead of time” … and yet, let me tell you about THE SPEED with which I dragged […]
