Topic: Minneapolis

Gleaming the Cube

Do you work in a cube farm? Today's Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune offers some tips on how to remain cool in your cube. Among the advice: Don't hold meetings in your cube Don't talk loudly on the phone in your cube. Don't eat at ...READ»

Re:Conference II

Company of Friends member Renee Hopkins recently confblogged the Innovation Convergence gathering in Minneapolis. Her report touches on the difference between creativity and innovation, how to calculate the return on innovation, ...READ»

Chronicling Companies

Between 1880 and 1930, Minneapolis was the "flour milling capital of the world," grinding enough flour in a day to make 12 million loaves of bread. The new Mill City Museum is housed in the Washburn A Mill, at one time the most ...READ»

Employee Etiquette

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune's Matt Krumrie offers some tips and tactics for better workplace etiquette. Some of the ideas are pretty mundane, but others I've been guilty of myself. Some good fodder for improving teamwork. Don't ...READ»

Models of Success

As New Orleans begins the process of tearing down its failures and building up its most promising future ventures, this sultry Southern tourist town is looking outside the region and inside its city limits for inspiring success stories.READ»

Holding on Through the Holidays

With the holidays on the approach, it's time to begin planning for what doesn't need to be a slow season. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune offers several ideas about how to remain productive in the thick of vacations and office ...READ»

Curbside Marketing: Blu Dot to Drop Free Chairs on Sidewalk and Track the Takers

Here's one for the annals of experimental marketing: On Wednesday and Thursday a white van carrying a stack of powder-coated Real Good chairs by Blu Dot, a Minneapolis design firm started by three college friends, will patrol ...READ»

BACKGROUND CHECKS HONOLULU

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‘StarBUCKS’ Status | The cost of Cool.

‘StarBUCKS’ Status. What is the cost of cool? And are you willing to pay the price? I got the inspiration for this blog in the Minneapolis airport this weekend. As I went from gate F14 to A6 I saw ‘StarBUCKS.’ I stopped ...READ»

The Sleep Opportunity

I'm moblogging from my Blackberry, so I'll keep this short. I'm off to Minneapolis for the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives and I'm already pretty tired. So, naturally, I started to think about the ...READ»

ICFF Preview: Freaky Design Videos

Is Blu Dot the David Lynch of the furniture world?READ»

In Defense of Laptops, MP3 Players, and Gadgets in Airline Cockpits

After a single airliner went ever so slightly astray because its flight crew were using laptops in the cockpit, lawmakers are poised to bring regulations crashing down that forbid almost any kind of gadget being used by pilots. That's ...READ»

The Bar as a Brand Experience: Growing Up a Saloon Keeper's Son

Barkeeping and branding are both in Joe Duffy's blood ... and have more in common than you might think.READ»

• Joe Duffy's DPOV blog

Democrats in Denver ; Republicans in St. Paul

On August 25, the delegates of the Democratic Party will descend on Denver to nominate formally -- finally! -- its candidate for President of the United States. The Republicans will gather a week later in St. Paul, Minnesota. Both ...READ»

• Now: July/August
• Numerology: Hot Dog!

Let's Do Lunch (or Dinner, or Drinks)

A guide to schmoozing in four cities that are starting to make their dot on the map.READ»

Individual Health Insurance Reform Weekly EasyToInsureME

A new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers made headlines this week in pointing out that the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform proposal, as currently outlined (approved by a 14-9 margin on October 13)READ»

Game Bored? II

FC Now reader Lynne Marie Parson emailed me some information about a project similar to the Big Urban Game in Minneapolis. Urban Challenge is a multi-city competition in which two-person teams find their way to 12 different ...READ»

The Real World

Headhunter Mark Jaffe strips away the varnish on interview candidates -- and his profession.READ»

The Art of Looking Busy

Seeing just enough of your coworkers is the key to effective collaboration.READ»

• Ellen Lupton's Design Your Life blog

The Eco-Conscious Thanksgiving Menu: Now Serving Greens!

The hidden cost of overeating on Thanksgiving isn't just an expanding waistline; it's a fatter carbon footprint, too. Studies show that most groceries travel about 1,500 miles from the farm to store shelves. The same distance ...READ»

My High-Tech Road Test

Collect the top-rated gear for road warriors, take it all on a 36-hour business trip-and what do you get? The final word on whether this stuff really works.READ»

Numbers Talk!

And when they do, they speak the language of business. Whether you're opening a branch office or identifying your next customer, here's everything you need to know to become fluent in finance.READ»

Fast 50 2008: Target

Target's strategy of rolling out capsule collections by well-known designers -- Loeffler Randall shoes and handbags, Erin Fetherston sweaters, Alice Temperley sportswear, Jovovich Hawk dresses -- has been a tried-and-true strategy ...READ»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies
• The Faces and Voices of Google

Clued In: Creating Experiences That Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again.

Welcome! My name is Lou Carbone. I'm the founder and CEO of a company in Minneapolis called Experience Engineering and I'm also the author of Clued In: How to Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again, published by Prentice Hall. ...READ»

Slam Excerpt

"To have hope without action is nothing." --Hannah Davis, 10 "Giving up hope is...giving up." --Audrey Berdahl-Baldwin, 13 "We can control [fear]. We just choose not to, because we accept it as an inevitability, as ...READ»