April 2011
2 posts
Why Condom Sales Soar In A Recession →
March 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
The first rule of doing work that matters = Go to... →
Make your schedule before you start. Don’t allow setbacks or blocks or anxiety to push you to say, “hey, maybe I should check my email for a while, or you know, I could use a nap.” If you do that, the lizard brain is quickly trained to use that escape hatch again and again.
November 2010
1 post
August 2010
1 post
“Good times breed bad habits. Bad times breed good habits.”
– Drayton Bird (via Perry Marshall)
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
1 post
Corporate Turf Wars (is there another way?)
A lot of companies are set up with departments. So it’s sort of like, OK, you have the design department here and you have the programmers here and you got the IAs and you got the project managers. And while they all work on the same thing, they also have their own sort of turf, you know. So people are really protective about “Oh you can’t do that because that’s my job. I...
March 2010
1 post
January 2010
2 posts
Money can buy happiness… but not in the way you’d... →
WatchGiving handouts to Africans is harming not helping In this provocative TED talk, Ugandan journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to take a completely new look at the “African question” — to look beyond the media’s stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent.
November 2009
1 post
August 2009
1 post
Inside The Great American Bubble Machine →
Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression.
July 2009
5 posts
Been scammed? Blame it on THOMAS →
For Best Results, Forget the Bonus →
While rewards are effective at producing temporary compliance, they are strikingly ineffective at producing lasting changes in attitudes or behavior. The news gets worse. About two dozen studies from the field of social psychology conclusively show that people who expect to receive a reward do not perform as well as those who expect nothing. This result, which holds for all sorts of rewards,...
Inside the world's biggest hedge fund →
June 2009
1 post
May 2009
3 posts
When do you turn your life around? →
Watch the video. Definitely gives some perspective.
10 lessons from a failed startup →
April 2009
3 posts
The lifestyle business bullshit →
Big Ass Fans and the Naked Truth About Attention &... →
March 2009
7 posts
Lessons from a 96-year-old business guru →
“Her mind is sharp as a tack, especially her business mind.
She and my grandfather used to own a store in Boston that sold freezers, which came fully stocked with frozen meat. That was their way of adding value to a commodity product.
That was over 50 years ago.
I asked her this weekend how she compares her memories of the Depression with what’s happening in our economy today.
Her...
WatchDavid Heinemeier Hansson from 37signals gives a great talk on Doing a Start Up in the Real World.
Famous Evolutionary Biologist Explains How To Get...
We can extract from human history a couple of principles. First, the principle that really isolated groups are at a disadvantage, because most groups get most of their ideas and innovations from the outside. Second, the principle of intermediate fragmentation: you don’t want excessive unity and you don’t want excessive fragmentation; instead, you want your human society or business to...
Nobel Prize Winner Milton Friedman Explains It... →
Excellent little video with some great commentary on the page too.
Why a logical product lineup may not be the most... →
“Simply put, introducing the higher-priced machine “framed” the previously most costly unit as a compromise, or middle of the road choice. Buyers were no longer spending too much on the “Cadillac” of the line, but rather making a wise and practical choice. Before the higher-priced machine was introduced, customers may have compromised on a still lower-priced machine, or perhaps bought none...
Slow cooking, Zimbabwe-style →
“We have lived for many years with austerity and it has become part of our culture I suppose. The food we eat and how we eat it has become more special. Each meal has become a celebration. Many people who visit say that everything tastes so much better in Zimbabwe. Nothing is wasted.”
February 2009
3 posts
Research shocker: Consumers don’t trust corporate... →
Discounting In A Recession? I don't Think So →
January 2009
2 posts
Open-plan offices are making workers sick →
December 2008
8 posts
What We Can Learn from E-mail Spammers →
“Winning isn’t everything, but the will to prepare to win is everything.”
– Vince Lombardi
WatchI met the Walrus: A 14 year old interviews John Lennon. Amazing animation and message. (via 37signals)
Attacks and Countermeasures in Marketing: Lessons... →
“Microsoft responded by playing INTO Apple’s frame, instead of creating their own.” “Marketing is not an exercise in REALITY; marketing is an exercise in perception management.”
“So maybe a recession is a good time to start a startup. It’s hard to say whether...”
– Paul Graham on Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (via 37signals)
November 2008
1 post
October 2008
4 posts
How Harley-Davidson got their groove back →
WatchMany brands are cutting down their advertising spend to cope with the economic downturn. Yet these periods can actually be an opportunity for smaller companies to get ahead and come out stronger on the other side. According to the market research firm PIMS (Profit Impact of Market Strategy), businesses that invest in marketing during a recession typically see a return on investment of more than...
Could this be the future of work? →
“ROWE stands for Results-Only Work Environment. In a ROWE, each person is free to do whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as the work gets done. Currently, there are two authentic ROWEs—Fortune 100 retailer Best Buy Co, Inc. and J. A. Counter & Associates, a small brokerage firm in New Richmond, WI. At both organizations, the old rules that govern a traditional work...
Offices: Old fashioned but still needed →