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Atlas (Socially) Unshrugged …
By Don Mathis, Kinetic Social CEO I was speaking to an investor in one of the Facebook PMD players last year, and he told me that his portfolio company was “going to be the Atlas of Social Media.” My...
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“It’s the Advice, Stupid”
By Don Mathis, Kinetic Social CEO Earlier this week, we began to hear more details regarding the changes Facebook has made to the Preferred Marketing Developer (PMD) program, in particular as these...
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Should Brands Be Tweeting About 9/11?
By Don Mathis, Kinetic Social CEO This post is based on an article in DIGIDAY today, 9/11/2013, on the question of Brands tweeting about 9/11. The article was well done, written by Saya Weissman. The...
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“How do YOU define leadership?” (In A Tweet)
Harvard Business School managed a Twitter conversation with alumni recently, asking the question “How Do YOU Define Leadership?” There are a lot of smart responses in the Storify version of the...
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The Vision Thing … from our company blog
Don Mathis at Navy training, 2013 I recently wrote a piece for Kinetic Social’s company blog, “Kinetic Conversations.” I thought it was worth highlighting here, especially after having just returned...
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Not chest-thumping, strutting egotism…
SECDEF Robert Gates & Don Mathis, CEO of Kinetic Social and Navy Officer By Don Mathis, Kinetic Social CEO Self-confident leadership: “Not the chest-thumping, strutting egotism we see and read...
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Maybe there is no “Series A Crunch”. But it still ain’t easy.
For the last few years, the venture capital and start-up community have exhaustively explored the idea that there is a “Series A crunch”. Opinions differ – sometimes sharply – on the topic. As Inc....
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Double, double toil and trouble, part 2
By Don Mathis, Kinetic Social CEO Continued from my last week’s post, Double, double toil and trouble Part #1 My last post described a crisis situation my command faced in Bahrain. It was 2002, and we...
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Pucker Factor Over The North Atlantic, OODA, And What I Learned About...
By Don Mathis, Kinetic Social CEO. In military aviation, the “OODA Loop” has the status of a biblical commandment: thou shalt Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. It is a decision framework which has...
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Pucker Factor Over the North Atlantic, continued.
Preflighting the Flight Deck, P-3 Orion By Don Mathis, Kinetic Social CEO Last week, I began a post on how the OODA loop – Observe, Orient, Decide, Act! – played out in an emergency situation faced by...
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