Recently, I have stepped up my reading & podcast listening. If you have been following the Grizzard blog, you may have noticed this. Below is a list of blogs and podcasts I subscribe to and read frequently. New suggestions are very, very welcome and appreciated. Blogs:

• Beth's Blog - I only just started reading Beth Kanter's blog, so I can't say yet if I like it or not, but I (probably like you) have heard her name a ton, and many of the books that I've read recently have actually cited her.
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Quite a while back, my buddy Derek Johnson over at Tatango was contacted by Ford (yes, the car company) about test driving a Ford Fiesta. I can only assume this is because he's a successful entrepreneur and moderately well-known internet personality. I can't recall how long he's going to have it, but I think it's about 6 months. I don't know much about the Fiesta program, but I believe the test drivers have to complete… Read More

It almost seems silly to start this post this way, but here we go... Times are bad. If you have a job, you could very likely be at risk of losing it. If you run your own company, you could just as likely be at risk of not being able to find business. So, what do you do? Too often in the last few months, I've read blog posts and tweets saying "Now is the perfect time to start a business."  Oftentimes, the reasoning is that innovation is what is needed to turn things around, and the implication… Read More