Tag: Scott Klososky

Interview with Scott Klososky: The Changing Face of Leadership

  Scott Klososky shares his thoughts with the American Staffing Association on how the staffing industry can use technology to hone its competitive advantage and position itself for future success – a preview of his highly anticipated keynote presentation at

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When the Only Thing Left is Loving Your Customer

I have started to see articles that state a common theme. It is that all products and services will eventually commoditize to the point where it is virtually impossible to distinguish them by price or performance. This result is driven

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Can Self-Destructing Content Improve Communication?

If you have no idea what Snapchat is, I urge you to load it on your mobile device and try it out. This application is sweeping through the teenagers of the U.S. and seems to be the next darling of the

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3 Effective Social Media Strategies to Drive Sales

Social technologies provide a powerful collection of marketing tools, and they are inexpensive compared to other forms of marketing. Companies including Starbucks, Nike, Pepsi, Dell, Dirt Devil, IBM and JetBlue have already seen tremendous results from social marketing methods, and

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Is Technology Addiction Really Bad for Us?

There seems to be a built in negative filter for most people when it comes to the concept of humans being dependent, or “addicted” to technology. They assume that anytime people are unnaturally attached to a device, there must be

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Technology Driven Chaos

At every level, technology is now a game changing tool – and a great weapon of destruction. I suspect there has been little in the history of humanity that has more ability to change our lives, careers and fortunes save

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IQ, EQ and Now VQ-Vision Intelligence

Leaders by their very nature are under pressure to have advanced intellectual and emotional intelligence. In today’s economy, they better add one more – VQ, The Vision Quotient. The pace of change is speeding up. Each and everyday, the competition

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What if the Internet were a Person?

I was reading an article the other day and someone posed a question much like the title of this post, and of course it sent my mind off into a catastrophe of ideas. In the Matrix movies the Internet became

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Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?

One of the foundational aspects of social technologies I talk about is the ability for a person,or an organization to use new tools to harvest huge amounts of information from the Websphere and pack it into our brains. I often

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5 Crippling Mistakes People Make with Technology

I often comment that technology is just a tool. It’s not magic, nor mysterious, it is just a tool. I do admit that some aspects can be complicated, and if one adds together all the technology we face in life,

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How to make social tech relevant to your business

Social media/networking and the collection of tools they have spawned have moved solidly into the strategy toolbox for organizations. If you want to be the Zen master of social tools, then first understand the need to implement elements of social

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4 Ways To Create Your Own Personal eCommunity

What is an eCommunity? It is a question I hear often, and it is usually followed by an answer that does not do more than scrape the surface of this powerful tool. The term eCommunity has been used to describe

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A Formula for Becoming Smarter in the Marketplace

  Being the kind of person that is forced to think big thoughts for a living, I am always on the hunt for new things to learn. It is a knowledge economy after all so the smart people win and

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The Bitter Consequences of Lagging

Leaders, by the definition of the word, should be out in front of their charges guiding them as to the next move to make, or the next place to go. But what happens when leaders fail to lead? What happens

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Vocabulary (and the Social Quagmire)

OK, I am only going to write about this one time, and then I am going to let it go. I start every presentation I give on social technologies with the same slide, and each time I review it, the

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5 Ways Technology Improves Our Lives

For some reason I have had these visions popping into my head of the things in life that technology has pretty much erased from the face of the Earth.  If you are under 25 years old, this post may not

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Using Technology To Gain A Competitive Advantage

Powerful, passionate and creative, Scott Klososky is one of the first successful Internet entrepreneurs and is a highly sought-after speaker.  He shares stories from his experience of building successful dot.com companies in good and hard times and shares personal stories

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Social Technologies – Rivers of Information

One of the more important concepts I speak about these days is the idea that the Internet, and a gaggle of social technologies, has created an amazing ability to build rivers of information into our brains. Most people are still

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Augmented Intelligence

Being a creative person, I am always on the look out for a way of mixing words that might be a new way to describe something that is not well described today. As I speak to audiences about business intelligence

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Should Sales People Tweet? – Podcast with Scott Klososky

Social networking has become part of our lives and more recently Twitter has vaulted to the top of the list of what’s hot in technology today. Twitter is in the news; in fact many TV and radio personalities are using

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