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Strategically Hip (02 June 05:58) |
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I am an addict when it comes to media consumption. I read a wide range of everything and the Internet has only further enabled my addiction. But, I’m also fascinated by how marketers use... |
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Kindle: Amazon's iPod Killer? (15 May 08:39) |
| So the Kindle is clunky. It comes only in white. And it is several times bigger than most portable devices we carry (phone, Blackberry, camera, iPod, etc). That's three strikes right there. ... |
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Ethno-shopno (30 April 07:03) |
| Ethnography has become the "research" technique of choice in new product Development, and for good reason. Getting into an environment, experiencing and observing, are the best way to learn... |
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Cocktail Party Connecting (17 April 06:19) |
| You’ve got to be the one that steps up at a cocktail party or business event. Don’t stand in the corner drinking a glass of wine and thinking that the people talking together don’t wan... |
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Innovation For Beginners (12 March 05:15) |
| In his classic 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argued that the people who achieve “fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have either been very young or v... |
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Supermarket Sweep (29 February 10:09) |
| How is it that an entire industry could take something that people inherently love and turn it into something they barely tolerate?
That's what's been going on in the grocery industry for t... |
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The 29% Who Are Onto Something Big (15 February 11:28) |
| The Economist magazine recently released a report entitled “Doing Good - - Business and the Sustainability Challenge.” They analyzed responses about corporate social responsibility - - p... |
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Leadership: When My Fingers Do The Talking (14 February 08:46) |
| I've noticed a funny phenomenon when I type: My fingers sometimes type out words that are spelled similarly or may even be derived from the word I intended, but are not. I notice other peopl... |
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Work/Life: Text Messaging--No Country For Old Men (13 February 05:36) |
| It isn’t anything new for kids to subvert whatever new technology is out there, and here they are doing it again. According to a recent report, a whole new language is springing up around... |
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Customer Centric Organizations – Hype or Innovation? (12 February 08:01) |
| Many companies talk about being customer focused and selling on value, but where’s the evidence? Too often customer value is expressed, as in value propositions, but lost in execution they... |
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Technology: Sharing Breakfast (10 February 03:35) |
| Yesterday was a fantastic day. :D
I got to meet Kfir Pravda, who was here for a few hours in NYC Friday morning awaiting his connecting flight to Israel. I was familiar with Kfir from blog... |
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“Dear Lee” (08 February 11:26) |
| It’s been almost two years since Exxon CEO Lee Raymond was paid about $400 million upon retiring. I’ve been wondering how he’s been spending his “golden” years and thought I’d dr... |
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Innovation: If You Lose Your Cool, You Won’t Get it Back (06 February 07:18) |
| Building a business around being cool is really hard. Keeping it there is even harder. But the toughest of all is getting your cool edge back if you ever lose it. The good news for innovator... |
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Leadership: Good Bob, Bad Bob (06 February 05:30) |
| The General has left the hardwood.
Robert Montgomery Knight, nicknamed the General not only for his stint as coach at Army, but also for the discipline and control he exacted at Indiana an... |
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Growing Up In a Cotton Wool World (06 February 04:35) |
| Do we need a commonsense revolution in education and elsewhere in society? I think we do and it needs to start now.
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The Leading Edge - Presidential Candidates Leave Your Dissonance at the Door (06 February 12:35) |
| After rereading my previous blog, Obama, Clinton '08, I realized that what I was responding to in my switch to Obama in the number one position and Clinton in the number two position was the... |
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Careers: Without Questions (05 February 07:48) |
| How much time do you spend coming up with questions that you want to ask the interviewer? Is it something you put a lot of effort into or do you typically ask basic questions like “What’... |
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Work/Life: My Super Tuesday Campaign Promises (05 February 05:52) |
| CEO Dad’s Tuesday Tirade….
My daughter’s elementary school is holding a mock primary today. I guess it’s important to introduce children to the importance of choosing the most qual... |
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The 5 Secrets (05 February 05:27) |
| John Izzo and I are both members of an organization called The Learning Network. Among other things, the members support each other in various ways related to aligning work and life priorit... |
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Is the Opportunity Real? (05 February 01:14) |
| We’ve all been in that sales situation where you think you have it wrapped up and at the last minute it stalls. They stop returning your calls and emails, all correspondences are very shor... |
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Create, Rip, Mix and Burn: A New Model For Corporate Learning (04 February 09:04) |
| The phrase "create, rip, mix and burn," popularized by Apple, summarizes how fans are personalizing and sharing their music experience. They are empowered with the ability to "create new mus... |
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The Leading Edge - Obama, Clinton '08 (03 February 03:33) |
| Obama, Clinton ‘08
with Bill as Secretary of State
Since I am not running for office, I respectfully exercise my right to change my mind or as I prefer to view it, have my opinion evolve.... |
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A Different Approach to Planning (03 February 03:05) |
| Can you name four magnificent events in your life which came about because of perfect planning? Sure, there was the vacation in '99. Then the move from… oh, scratch that. Even if I count a... |
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Technology: How Social is "Social" Media? (02 February 06:09) |
| Jonny Goldstein interviewed me back in August 2007 on his show Jonny's Par-Tay [link]. Looking at the countdown timer to the end of the show, around -18:00 he asks me "So... Did you feel a ... |
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Xobni- Taming My Inbox (02 February 11:15) |
| A few weeks ago I ran into a Beta for a product called Xobni Insite. (Xobni is Inbox spelled backwards). Xobni is another in a long line of email taming tools (NeoPro, TrogBar, Jello.Dashboa... |
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Work/Life: Recession and Work+Life Fit (01 February 11:33) |
| Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been repeatedly asked: “What do you think will happen to work+life fit and flexibility if the economy experiences a recession?”
I think two thin... |
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Game Changers - Part Two (01 February 10:21) |
| Last week I mentioned that a perfect storm is about to change the game on our energy future and, therefore, our environment and economy (the elements in this case being climate change; fossi... |
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Work/Life: All Play and No Work...I Can Dream, Can't I? (01 February 06:49) |
| Let the other bloggers concern themselves with the latest narrowing of the field in the presidential election; let a different set of online pundits make their Super Bowl predictions…I am ... |
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Leadership: Old Habits Die Hard (01 February 06:35) |
| If they’re no longer working and continue to not work, replace them. What am I talking about? Old habits. Why in the world would you want to hang onto something that doesn't work for yo... |
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The Leading Edge - "You gotta love the bastards!" (01 February 03:25) |
| Sean Brawley is an "ego less" coach. That means it's much more important to him that his clients succeed than that he be right. I could learn a thing or two from him in that area.
Anyway, w... |
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Leadership: Ignorant Expertise (31 January 11:41) |
| Last weekend I purchased a Panasonic DVD recorder. It came with the usual manual and quick-start setup guide. I’m not a techie, but I’m no slouch; I know how to follow directions. Well a... |
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Dell Hell Revisited and Personal Branding (31 January 08:06) |
| Remember “Dell Hell.” That’s when Dell learned – or should have learned – the power of consumer anger. Blogger Jeff Jarvis reamed Dell for its shabby customer service and the stor... |
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Innovation: What Your Customer Communication Style SAYS About You (31 January 05:15) |
| As there are may types of customers, there are as many ways companies and businesses choose to communicate with them. How and when you talk with your customers depends on your disposition to... |
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Birthday Pinging (31 January 12:05) |
| Everybody likes to be remembered on their birthdays and that's why they are a pinging staple. I have birthdays logged at the top of my Outlook schedule so I can call or email that day when I... |
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Is the Design Revolution Here? Can Designers get to the top of a publicly traded company? (30 January 10:23) |
| In the past months I’ve read several articles and blogs about the possibility that Jonathan Ive, SVP of Industrial Design at Apple, could succeed Steve Jobs as CEO. As far as I can tell t... |
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Leadership: Crouching Competition, Rising Tiger (30 January 06:30) |
| “I’ve got holes in my game.” That’s one of the first things Tiger Woods told the media after his first victory of the 2008 PGA season in the Buick Invitational at Torrey Pines. “I... |
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Innovation: Old Often Becomes New (30 January 02:33) |
| Originality is overrated. Engineers are often told in engineering schools that a good design typically consists of 45% duplication, 45% slight modification and 10% originality. Those who fol... |
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Work/Life: Policy is a dirty word (30 January 01:28) |
| Customer evangelism tip: if you want to bring your customers closer to you, don't use the p-word, at least not to their face.
Don't say "Our policy is …" because they don't want to hear ... |
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Work/Life: Bill and Hillary, Sittin' in a Tree (29 January 06:52) |
| CEO Dad’s Tuesday Tirade….
I talked to a fellow at a party this past weekend that was disproportionately indignant about the way Bill Clinton is out there stumping for his wife. I say ... |
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Bill and Hillary, Sittin' in a Tree (29 January 06:52) |
| CEO Dad’s Tuesday Tirade….
I talked to a fellow at a party this past weekend that was disproportionately indignant about the way Bill Clinton is out there stumping for his wife. I say ... |
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Careers: Assessing fit (29 January 02:34) |
| We hear it all the time from colleagues: “At the end of the day, it’s about fit.” “If you were stuck in an airport, would you want to be stuck with that person…blah blah blah.“ F... |
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Leading Ideas: Challenges Drive Creativity (28 January 05:43) |
| ""The things we fear most in organizations -- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances -- are the primary sources of creativity." -- Margaret J. Wheatley (author, organizational consultant)
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The Leading Edge - Real Men Don't Eat Quiche or Like Hillary (27 January 07:29) |
| What is Hillary's Man Problem?
There is a lot written about her not being tough enough for men plus a variety of other reasons. I think there is something else possibly going on. Men -- a... |
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Game Changers (27 January 12:40) |
| A perfect storm is about to change the game on our energy future and, therefore, our environment and economy. The unprecedented confluence of elements in this case? Climate change; fossil fu... |
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Study: Do Social Networks Improve Your Life? (26 January 06:07) |
| Ever wonder what those millions of other people joining social networks plan to do once they're there?
Beyond throwing sheep on Facebook or becoming a fan of hip-hop stars on MySpace, many... |
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Work/Life: Next Flight: Talking or No? (26 January 12:46) |
| One of the last places on the planet to which you can still escape the Internet is in flight. That's about to change.
As Jason Fry reports in The Wall Street Journal, the Internet is coming... |
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The Sudden Return of the Rational Consumer (26 January 12:24) |
| It had to happen. For years now, we’ve been blathering about Starbucks, the $3 cup of coffee, and the mass-marketing of upscale luxury in small, accessible sips.
I’ve been in dozens of... |
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Work/Life: How Many Grams of Fat Are In That Attitude? (25 January 07:47) |
| Here’s one that slipped under the radar while the Republicans were bashing Hillary and Hillary was bashing Obama and Obama was bashing Hillary and Amy Winehouse was bashing herself.
Sta... |
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Work/Life: NYC Versus Kentucky—One Resists Flexibility, the Other Embraces It. Who Wins? (24 January 10:54) |
| First, let’s establish that the horses have been let out of the “flexibility barn.” Whether we like it or not, flexibility is fundamentally reshaping how and where we live and work. ... |
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Technology: Free Market Flying (24 January 10:34) |
| I guess I shouldn't be surprised the airlines have been fighting tooth and nail over proposals to charge them higher runway fees during rush hours. The idea, called "congestion pricing," is ... |
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