Posts Tagged ‘Transparency’

On Coaching

The truth is that most professionals start coaching in their mid to late career. Maybe the leap is spurred by an advancement in position or the start of a small business. Some people even start coaching because they’ve recently lost a job, or worse yet, their are challenges at home.

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Collective Business

Are you familiar with Sandbox or Qwirk?  These are co-working concepts based here in Columbus, Ohio.  The general idea is that small businesses and solo entrepreneurs come together to share space, equipment, and the bills, making it easier to make a living.  Co-working is a good idea. An interesting byproduct of the co-working environment is that people working together in close proximity will naturally form relationships.  Once the relationships start to develop, organic collaboration of complimentary offerings is the next logical step.  In a sense, each co-working location has potential to become it’s own collective business. Collective Business I’ve noticed the same question coming up as I’m out ‘socializing’ with other business folk:  “So who makes up Huber + Co.?  How many people do you have working with you over there?” I like answering these questions.  First, because it’s seems to be an answer that people aren’t always anticipating. And second, it goes back to our commitment to you to be transparent, open, and honest about who we are, and how we do business. We’re working to build a collective of sorts. But rather than forming our collective by pure luck of the draw (and by luck, I mean whoever gets their first with a rent check in hand), we’re building it strategically. We’ve started to invite people we know who have complementary skill sets to join forces with us, share space, and share projects.  No one is married or locked in.  No one owns the group.  But for now, working together seems to be working well for us.  We’ve focused on relationships first, and let the business opportunities unfold as they will. Huber + Co. Interactive Including myself and Bryan, there are 9 employees at huber+co (yep, we’re playing XBox in the photo, but not everyone is there).  We’re [...]

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You Are NOT Entitled to Free Stuff

Chris Brogan chatted with me this morning via video on chrisbrogan.com, about an incident where an unnamed blogger approached George Smith Jr. of Krocs and apparently demanded free products by making a threat of writing negative content if George didn’t give in to the blogger’s demands.

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