Others Highlights

In Chapter 8 of 10 of her 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, marketing innovator and digital strategist Caroline Giegerich defines what it means to check-in using social media such as Foursquare and the resulting art behind the check-in experience. Giegerich ties both product and personal branding to the check-in experience and how location-specific or brand-specific check-ins help define a person over time.

Consider opportunities to get paid to recycle so you can go green and make a buck at the same time.

In Chapter 12 of 20 in his 2011 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, author and leadership expert Simon Sinek shares what working with the military, including the Air Force, has taught him about planning. Specifically, Sinek learns planning is much more valuable as a process than as an event. Sinek learns plans too often go wrong but the process of planning creates more responsive reaction and problem solving in the face of adversity and uncertainty.

Ann Winblad, co-founder and managing director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, says she can tell by what she sees on programmers' desks. She spoke at a Churchill Club event called Igniting Innovation and Mastering Change in Santa Clara, Calif.

It's no secret the auto industry is a man's world. It's been that way since it emerged more than a century ago. Anne Doyle, former Ford Motor Company communications executive and author of "Powering Up: How America’s Women Achievers Become Leaders, sounds off on this issue and shows how one supplier company is working to change the situation.

In this edition of You've Got, Rob Dyrdek talks about how he created his empire and emphasizes the that anyone can make their own luck.

In Chapter 8 of 20 in his 2011 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, author and leadership expert Simon Sinek shares his favorite definition of innovation - the application of technology to solve human problems. He highlights several product advancements that do not answer human problems, causing a breakdown in innovation thinking. He uses a toaster as an example of useful innovation that meets his criteria: the application of technology to solve human problems.

Mark Ortiz decides to leave the corporate world to open a surf store.