Recently Published: The Company is the Product, Tech is Rotting our Brains, July Doldrums, Picking a University, and Loyalty Programs

It’s been a varied couple of weeks when it comes to blog posts in the Phoenix Business Journal. Here is what we have put out there since the last update on the PADT blog:

“The company itself is the now the product” takes a look at the shift in business towards the management of a company being incentivized to focus on the value of the company and not the product or service the company makes. This fundamental shift is changing the way business is done.

We have amazing technology at our beck and call every day that gives us information and helps us make decisions about everything from where to eat to where to go to college. The information and technology are so good that we barely need to think for ourselves. This begs the question “Is technology killing our ability to make decisions?”

Every year the same thing happens. All the momentum that had been building for the first half of the business year comes to a halt and we drift unproductive through July. I call this time “The July Doldrums”

Most of us spend a lot of time worrying about what university our kid should go to. After hiring college graduates for almost twenty-five years I’ve come to the conclusion that “What university should my kid go to is the wrong question.”

I recently found myself wanting to spend a lot more money on a business trip so I could get more points from the hotel’s point program. Silly. But that had me wondering “The power of loyalty programs: How awarding perks can boost your business”