When was the last time you tried to hold your breath? In the bath? Driving through a tunnel? In the pool as a kid? Wherever it was, I bet you never managed to pop the three-minute bubble – let alone hit seven minutes and twenty-nine seconds. Why seven minutes and twenty-nine seconds? Because that’s where ...

What do you call a man with no shins? Tony. That’s why I’m not a professional stand-up comic. Fortunately, with regular slots on BBC’s Radio 4 shows, sell-out tours across the UK to critical acclaim and a veritable treasure chest of TV appearances to force upon her grandchildren one day – we can safely assume ...

Between April 2012 and April 2013, summit organizer GDS International gathered together 231 North American CIOs, vice presidents and IT directors for a collective 7.5 days of structured conversation, learning and networking. Last month, they handed MeetTheBoss TV the resultant data and asked us to write about it. You can download the full CIO U.S. IT ...

One leadership style is not the most effective in any given situation.  When it comes to managing people effectively, the atmosphere and type of work environment often means you have to “switch” your leadership style in to a different gear.  Good leaders can do this instinctively; they understand what needs to be done and the ...

Amidst the global recession of the last two years, the news of profit losses, job cutbacks and business closures soon became a daily occurrence. While the meltdown of the global banking sector spearheaded the headlines, the ensuing impact on our daily lives really took effect as the recession hit our retailers hard. With everyone across ...

Written by Kari Jansson, CMO Channel Editor Companies are growing wise to the advantages of online video and its potential to have a growing effect on their business – provided it is done well. Remember the ‘Hunter shoots a bear‘ ad that went viral back in 2010? What’s about ThreeUK’s fantastic #DancePonyDance integrated campaign of late? ...

The defamation of Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd continues to make the news this week, following his ousting from the company almost two weeks ago, but Hurd isn’t alone in the Hall of Fame of slanderous CEOs. Long lauded with making HP the world’s biggest technology company, Hurd had reportedly been in talks to negotiate ...

Stumble into Apple’s App Store and you are greeted with literally thousands of applications you can download for your iPhone. The reason is simple: in a world of constant mobility and interactivity, both smartphone and app markets have gone stratospheric.  Today applications cover all aspects of life, helping users do everything from managing budgets, locating ...

@MeetTheBossTV We’ve heard the quote recycled by plenty from our good ole’ buddies at HubSpot: “…by 2013, 90% of internet traffic to is expected to be video.” And yet, here we stand in 2013 – and are we really that surprised? Nope. Take a look at the golden boy of online video, YouTube. Seventy-two hours of ...

If you’ve found yourself reading this blog post then we’re guessing you’ve got a good grasp of what big data is and what it looks like (despite the elusiveness of any concrete definition). Although relatively old lived, big data in its ‘latest’ form is hoping to combine a maze of new data combinations – internal ...