Jackie Nagel, Synnovatia 
When you’ve worked with a service provider for a long period of time, it can be difficult to suspend the service being provided. Through the years, you’ve come to rely on the service provider to help you grow your business. They’re like a member of the family! How could you possibly move forward without them? But, what do you do when they haven’t kept up with the times? When the service they provide is stuck in 2004?
In the movie, Alice in Wonderland, Alice Kingsleigh, a precocious and somewhat defiant young lady, finds herself in the world of Underland where she discovers that her purpose is to slay the horrific giant, Jabberwocky, and restore the White Queen to her rightful throne.
I recently attended a technology conference at my alma mater, Anderson School of Business at UCLA (http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/). The event, geared toward women in technology, boasted an elite panel of women successfully maneuvering the tech environment. The dais included:
A recent article in the Las Vegas Sun discussed the huge influx of attendees at a recent business fair. The downturn in the economy, along with the unemployment rate, is causing people to rethink their professional choices. People are turning to self-employment to gain “more control” over their future.
Founding Father, Ben Franklin, said, “Time is money”. Peter Drucker, world-renown management consultant, said, “Until we manage time, we can manage nothing else.” As strategic coaches, we say, “You’ll never manage your time until you learn to manage technology, tools, and yourself.”
Like DOS 3.0, managing time is obsolete. The skill of time management was applicable during the post-World War II industrial age; however, it is no longer an effective tool in our fast-paced information age.