The New and The Next - Issue #56

Goal journey mapping is your outline strategy how you will achieve your goals. It’s a fighting plan that you constantly adjust, update and improve.

Knowledge without wisdom is dangerous. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

This experience underlines the conclusion I’ve drawn from years of research and experience: Professionally ambitious women really only have two options when it comes to their personal partners…

For news media, recommendation engines are a horror show. The NQS project I’m working on at Stanford forced me to look at the way publishers try to keep readers on their property — and how the vast…

Research has shown that tangential content can earn 30% more linked mentions and 77% more shares on average than brand-focused campaigns.

Wikipedia just sent me an email asking me to donate again. 

reviewing how you spend your time and energy

Learn how to start your own bullet journal, an organizational tool that’s easy (and even fun) to use.

The benefits of reading are negated if you don’t remember what you read. This article discusses a tested system to increase retention.

“Motivation is your ability to head towards the same goal over a long period of time.”

If you want to understand just how bad burnout can get, consider the story of Melissa Sinclair, an employee at Time Out New York. 

No matter what you do for a living, you can always quantify your resume bullet points to help it stand out to hiring managers.

These five steps will help you carve out a new career path (and save lots of time, money, and frustration in the process).

As businesses chase evanescent market trends, young workers are being pulled into programs to give advice to the top ranks of their companies.

Women in the “creative economy” are making 32% less than their male counterparts.

Doing this exercise can help you understand what you really want in your next job so you can go find it.

I thought this was interesting. It’s an infographic.

“Most employers incur substantial, often hidden, costs by inflating degree requirements, while enjoying few of the benefits they were seeking.”

Learn the five product habits that you need to find the critical problems that customers have and solve them better than anyone else.

Obsessed with these growth studies!

As a founding partner of Rock Health and seasoned consultant, Leslie Ziegler has helped brand dozens of startups. Here’s what the success stories had in common.

Learn how to take advantage of internal link building to increase search traffic to your site step by step with my personal internal linking strategy.

Here’s how to do the hard work, up-front, to make sure your next campaign goes off without a hitch.

Last Thursday, furniture giant IKEA announced that it would be acquiring the pioneering on-demand labor marketplace TaskRabbit.

It’s been seven months since we launched our SaaS startup and we’re ramen profitable. Read about how we got here and what we’ve learned.

How simple and clear it sounded, and what a great challenge the task itself actually was. Not only we had limitations with the development platform, our role was to give some recommendations to the…

Brief but nice to know.

Discover how to bring a guest into your live video on Instagram, and how to use this feature to bolster your brand.

“If management makes bad decisions in order to hit short-term earnings targets, and consequently gets behind the eight-ball in terms of costs, customer satisfaction or brand strength, no amount of subsequent brilliance will overcome the damage has been inflicted,” Buffett writes.

Impostor syndrome is real. Learn how to spot the symptoms and deal with it in order to avoid burnout and fatigue.

“How do I grow this thing and manage a huge ship if I’m already freaking out about a meeting with 6 people who work for me?” You have to believe and feel like you’re already in possession of what you…

“Money isn’t the most important thing in the world. Your time is.” Parents, teachers, and mentors all around the world have spoken these words to us, in one form of another, throughout our lives. It makes sense, too. Most of us come to realize at some point that money is a means, not an end….

Totally agree with this.