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How to Drive a Stake into the Hearts of Shareholders

John A. Lee — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:16:32 -0400

Recently, I received an email from a reader of an article of mine who thanked me for being an Evangelist of Ethonomics. Evangelist of Ethonomics? I thought, hmmmm. . . is that what I am? Sounds like a 60s kind of guru, a cross between John Maynard Keynes and Aristotle.

According to Wikipedia, Ethonomics goes down as the “provisional name for the discipline of formally mapping and defining the prioritization of values within value systems.”

Generating Buy-In

George Dennis — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:32:56 -0400

More than 20 years ago, Kevin Costner and the movie “Field of Dreams” gave us one of the all time great movie lines; “If you build it, they will come.” While that may be true in the movies, it couldn’t be more wrong for launching a new venture.

Don’t be at the head of the class

George Dennis — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:35:17 -0400

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in life is that you don’t have to be at the head of the class to succeed. I consider myself a fairly intelligent business owner, and it’s not something I acquired in a classroom or from a textbook.

Time, Inc's Former Editor on the Future of the Magazine

Chris Dannen — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:45:51 -0400

Over the last three decades Jim Gaines has served as editor in chief of Time, Life and People magazines, as well as the corporate editor of Time, Inc. Today, August 11, is his sixty-second birthday--but unlike many of the print veterans that are his peers, Gaines has not stuck his head in the pulp and ignored the event horizon of print journalism. Nor has he retired. He has instead grafted his experience to a Web magazine startup called Flyp.

Listening Posts

Danny Brown — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:48:51 -0400

When was the last time someone asked you what you want? What you’d prefer to have, over what their perception thinks you’d like to have? Are you looked after by the services you use on a regular basis? If not, why not – isn’t it about time you were?

I’m a business owner, but I’m also a consumer and a customer. So why am I told what I need instead of being asked what I need, as a customer?

Archives of the Planet

Jed Share — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:11:19 -0400

'The Dawn of the Color Photograph' is a wonderful book I recently
had the pleasure of discovering. It's a treasure trove of color images from
the early 1900's, collected by Albert Kahn, a banker, yet really an
internationalist who dedicated his life to collecting and preserving
the earliest collection of color photographs depicting life at that
time, all around the world.

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see”

Jed Share — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:49:10 -0400

Henry David Thoreau wrote: “The question is not about what you look at, but what you see”

When I first read Walden Pond, it influenced me deeply to seek peace
in nature and as a professional photographer to become mindful of the most minute detail. Is this a
Dandelion or a network? Inter-connected, inter-dependent, balanced,
and stronger as a whole.

Are we stronger when we connect to others, I think we are, how do you see it?

See more evocative photography at http://jedshare.com

Hiring New Sales Employees Online

Skip Anderson — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:55:47 -0500

Sales employees may be easier to come by in retail and other B2C industries right now given the state of the economy and the number of unemployed workers. But this doesn't prevent a hiring company from needing to sign on the best candidates they can find for all job openings.

A friend of mine applied for seasonal retail positions at three different department stores a few weeks ago. She made applications online on the same afternoon.

Diversity in companies

davinder singh — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:41:04 -0500

I have been checking on claims of companies for diversity. It seems that the diversity claims doesn't hold moch ground if we look at diversity in mnagement positions.

Bailout or reward to network

davinder singh — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:03:25 -0500

There is money involved and the priority of nation seems to be capital. The President elect announces economy or bail out team first. If that is the CHANGE then I would like to announce a welcome change to disaster.

Do what you're measured on...

Christopher Scherer — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:12:02 -0400

“Do what you’re measured on”