“The ultimate test of leadership is if you can have people follow you on the journey. I remember reading this quote somewhere and unfortunately don’t remember who said it, but it resonated with me quite well and here it goes — ‘A leader without followers is a person out for a walk alone.’”

“Malcolm Gladwell recently gave the keynote at the American Association of Advertising Agencies’ Account Planning conference in Chicago. It’s excerpted on Advertising Age. If you’ve worked in design or product development (or read ‘Blink’) you know the drawbacks of focus groups. But what Gladwell does here is describe the solutions as ones of management.”

“If KnockKnock, the ebook I published in June, is about how to make websites do their job better, then it’s only natural to turn our attention to blogs… I divide the blog world into three groups and turn my attention to one. And in particular, I try to sell you hard on how building a blog asset can have a spectacular impact on you, your career, your organization and your ideas.”