November 2, 2007

FREE – It’s More Complicated Than You Think

Attitudes, Book Reviews

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The titles comes from a great article in the Wall Street Journal by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert. It highlights his experience with giving stuff away for free on the web. His results are a mix of plus and minus. Great read.

You may not know that besides being funny, Adams is a very perceptive thinker about a lot of things. Many of them are business related. His book “The Dilbert Principle” is a very funny compilations of some of his early cartoons. Then the last chapter is a very insightful riff on how to run a company the right way. Sure it’s tongue in cheek but you could teach a college course from this chapter if you didn’t tell people who the author is – it’s really good stuff.

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[tags] entrepreneur, Scott Adams, Dilbert, management, small business [/tags]

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About the author 

John Seiffer

I've been an entrepreneur since we were called Business Owners. I opened my first company in 1979 - the only one that ever lost money. In 1994 I started coaching other business owners dealing with the struggles of growth. In 1998 I became the third President of the International Coach Federation. (That's a story for another day.) Coaching just the owners wasn't enough for some. So I began to do organizational coaching as well. Now I don't have time to work with as many companies as I'd like, so I've packaged my techniques into this Virtual CEO Boot Camp.

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