Book Review: Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire by Dan Martell
My wife and I have been running our businesses for the past 19 years as business owners (TELLUS International and TELLUS Travels) and as employees for other organizations before our entrepreneurship. There is a stark difference between running your business, profitability, and cash flow and being an employee where all those hard topics such as…
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AI Disruption – Shaking up the Established Vendors
I can’t remember any other time in my career when I have witnessed so many disruptions on so many fronts concerning technology. It is changing the way we work, changing the ecosystems in multiple industries, and destroying many traditional businesses that were reluctant to face the reality that AI is replacing some things they do.…
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Book Review: Character Limit – How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
I have always been fascinated by the software industry and its players. I love reviewing books from the technology industry. One of the reviews was of Kara Swisher’s book Burn Book-A Tech Love Story, which portrayed her journey and some very visible tech characters throughout her career journey. Besides business modeling/strategy books and anything related…
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Ecosystems and channels in transformation mode
I have lived and breathed software channels my entire career. I learned how they worked as a young product manager for Finland’s second-largest software ERP company. My channel career took off when I became head of development for a Finnish data warehousing/analytics company, where we built channels in Western Europe and the US. I learned…
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Leveraging AI in a Boutique Management Consulting Firm: My Journey
If you have read my LinkedIn Newsletters and blogs, you know I have been preaching about embracing AI and identifying how to use it in our daily work. In this article, I wanted to share some ideas on how I, as the owner of a boutique management consulting firm, use AI to be more effective…
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The Rise of Autonomous Agentic AI and what it means to all of us both in technology and enterprises
We are truly living in a fascinating era. The advancement in AI technology is moving at a pace that makes it hard to keep up with innovations in different topics. I have worked in the technology field my entire career, and just reflecting on how much time I have put into researching and reading about…
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Book Review: Super Thinking – 300 Mental Models You Should Know About
We all get drawn into situations in our lives where we feel that “we have seen this thing before” but can’t put a finger on it where we have seen it before. We make decisions daily that might have a long-lasting impact, so we want to ensure we have the right decision frameworks from which…
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Business models are changing for MSSPs and MSPs due to AI – threat or opportunity?
Each industry is facing pressure with the advent of AI. Based on my experience working in the channel for 30+ years, some channel partners will survive, and some will eventually become irrelevant. That is just the reality of business, and I saw this happening when some MSPs did not want to face the reality that…
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Are you pursuing a meaningful life, and are you avoiding distractions?
It is good for all of us to stop and think about what we want from our lives, including careers. Self-reflection is a good thing, as we are busy with the increasingly “noisy”information flow we get from different channels. This time, I wanted to continue my book review journey, allowing you to reflect on your…
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Is the subscription economy over, and what should software vendors and businesses do to stay relevant?
Not long ago, organizations were willing to pay a hefty perpetual software license with an annual maintenance fee for a needed solution. Some software vendors still offer these perpetual licenses, and it is beyond me how they survive, as most software organizations have offered subscription-based license models for years. The subscription-based economy has unfortunately led…
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