Utah Valley Business
The Devil is in the Details: It’s the Boring Stuff that Matters
by Ty Kiisel I recently started reading The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. The author writes about entrepreneurship and innovation. Unlike many books on this topic, despite the title, he doesn’t seem to be limiting his comments and suggestions to startups—he’s also suggesting that any company can innovate like a startup does if they are willing to look [...]
UTC PR Event: AtTask and Ancestry.com Advise Executives To Leverage Content, New Media to Spread Influence and Reach
-Ty Kiisel of AtTask and Ancestry.com’s Heather Erickson share valuable media secrets at the Utah Technology Council’s Annual PR Event- Thought-leadership content is key to thriving in the blogosphere. It is vital that companies combine new and traditional public relations practices with both local and national media in their media outreach, leading regional PR executives [...]
The Game of Work?
by Ty Kiisel On a Sunday evening my adult children often come over to the house and we play games. Sometimes it’s a board game, sometimes it’s a card game, but they all like playing games together. It doesn’t matter how easy or complicated the game may be, they all have one thing in common—a set [...]
UVEF Kicking Off Year With Crowd Form And Giveaways
The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum is hosting a new type of luncheon to start off the new year. In a crowd-forum format, Lessons Learned will feature five startup entrepreneurs sharing their top three war stories on how they have overcome a particular challenge to make their business successful. This is sure to be a big [...]
Mistakes to Avoid in Preparing for Funding: Alan E. Hall, Dr. David Norton to Headline Jan. 11 Meetup Event
-Zions Bank to Host January 11 Business Event- The fastest growing business Meetup in the U.S. will give Utah entrepreneurs a leg up on successfully getting funding in 2012. Zions Bank, on One South Main St. in Salt Lake, will host the January 11 SLC Entrepreneur Circle event at 5:30 p.m. Renowned entrepreneurs Alan [...]
Treat People Like Adults? Come On…
by Ty Kiisel Last week I stumbled upon an interesting article published in CNNMoney titled How Flexible Work Actually Works by Katherine Reynolds Lewis. I think there are a lot of people out there who have realized that the current way we manage projects and lead project teams doesn’t work as well as it should. It seems pretty [...]
How to Make Your Resume Stand Out
by Suzy Jessen, Director, Global Talent Acquisition at Ancestry.com, Inc. One of the first things any jobseeker will do before looking for their next career opportunity is update their resume. Your resume is important because it is the first chance that a potential employer gets to look at what qualifies you for an open [...]
The Supreme Quality of Leadership
by Ty Kiisel I have been fortunate throughout my career to have had several great leaders (although I have also experienced my share of poor leaders). Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States and supreme commander of the Allied forces during World War II, said, “The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionable integrity. Without [...]
SageCreek Adds Lendio and Needle to Growing Portfolio
–SageCreek’s Greg Butterfield named to Needle’s Board of Directors — Mentor Capital firm SageCreek Partners (www.sagecreekparners.com) continues its impressive growth with the addition of lending matchmaker, Lendio (www.lendio.com), and ecommerce chat software, Needle (www.needle.com), to its existing client roster. SageCreek’s role will include providing business strategy and C-Level mentoring to support these new clients’ continued [...]
Project Leaders and Making Decisions
Over the years I have participated in a number of discussions (debates really) about whether or not project managers are decision makers. The opinions seem to be pretty polarized. The camp that says “NO” argues that the executives in the organization make the strategic decisions and project managers execute those decisions. In most organizations this [...]
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