Happiness = Success

“These days, my idea of success is a well-managed balance between time with people I love and a project I’m deeply passionate about. Right now, that’s Campaign Monitor. Time spent with each one of these has a huge impact on how much I enjoy the other. When I get that balance right, I’m at my...

One Thing
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  • February 11, 2013

Our current day and age is tightly knitted by our consistent schedules to work more, be more efficient, increase our productivity and achieve more by doing so. Through our strive to do more we get so involved in more projects and take on tasks and “to do’s” (one of my former managers in the corporate...

Business use to be pure hierarchical. Those days when I was still running around in my torn shorts trying to figure out how to do a back flip on my BMX, those were the days where hierarchy ruled the business floor.

How Bad You Want Success

A while ago I wrote an entry around “Defining Success“, a post about how I think about success and in the context of both an entrepreneur and manager in the corporate environment – define success for myself. For me success is as in the above mentioned post: The true definition of success is when you...

Marketing is Everyone’s Responsibility

Over at the KLG, I’m your typical business guy and a big part of my “job” is making sure that our marketing is firing on all cylinders. First and foremost though my focus lies on implementing our, perhaps even more so – my vision, giving guidance and direction of where I would like to go...

Limbo

Do you remember the reference made in the movie Inception with Leo DiCaprio about Limbo? Limbo being that state of mind or place where one “hangs” indefinitely. There are times when I get so caught up in what I’m doing that at some point it beings to subconsciously consume me and although I know I’m...

Building Experiences

These past couple days have been spent quite a bit in thought about “User Experience”, in my opinion one of the most important aspects of Marketing. An experience in the dictionary is defined as; the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience. You live it, you breathe it, it impacts...

Challenge Authority

Very few things make me happier at work than when an employee challenges me or another leader — and quite frankly, the more junior and less well I know the employee, the better. No matter what the role, we hire smart, ambitious, and intellectually curious people to work at Return Path. Why let all that...