Leadership

Leadership Talking Points #1

It recently occurred to me that although we have a leader of some sort working on making every department better in our company, we have no one explicitly working on making those leaders better. At first I shrugged it off because I couldn’t imagine the hubris of someone who is instructing others on leadership that was not near retirement age with…

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Leadership

Are Side Projects Productive?

For the first time since my sophomore year in college (so roughly 15 years), I don’t currently have some side business going on. It’s a bizarre feeling to come home and have to think about what I’m going to do at night once my son is in bed. It used to be a given that I’d go to work on some…

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Leadership, Operations & Technology

Announcing My New Product: SupplierPartner.com

Today with great excitement I’d like to announce the launch of a software application I’ve been working on for a long time. Supplier Partner is a browser based tool you use to manage your product catalog that replaces spreadsheets and makes your information instantly accessible to your resellers. It replaces your spreadsheet (or whatever you use) on which you store your product…

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Leadership

When Should You Panic?

As I write this post, I’m in the midst of what has turned out to be a very hectic and turbulent launch of some new warehouse management software. We’re in week three of working through all the unexpected bugs and our shipping volume is still only at half what it was before the launch, and that’s actually an accomplishment compared to…

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Leadership

My 7 Biggest Mistakes Of The Last Year

As I near the end of the first year in my new role as Director of E-commerce, I’ve been contemplating some of the mistakes I’ve made. In order to grow and improve I think you have to both take an honest look at yourself and also be open to criticism from others. Pride makes this sort of thing painful to do,…

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Leadership

Stop Reading and Take Action Already!

Over the past few months I’ve been flying through books. Almost to the point where this blog is a business book review blog more than an E-commerce blog like I had intended it to be. Despite this I still feel like I can’t keep up with everything I want to read, and this made me realize that I may be…

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