September 21, 2010 · 11:33 am
I was driving back to the office yesterday and passed the Little League fields here in town. It was late on a beautiful fall afternoon and there were a couple of games going on. I’m guessing the kids were somewhere around 10 or 11 and from the looks of their uniforms they had been playing for a bit.
I had an immediate reaction to this and it probably wasn’t what you’d expect. Oh sure, I think it’s great that they were outside and playing instead of vegging out in front of the TV or video game. But I found it kind of disturbing and it kicked off a business thought as well. Let me explain. Continue reading →
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August 4, 2010 · 1:40 pm
I had a lovely meeting this morning with a friend of a friend who’s trying to get started in the business world. She’s bright, well-educated, personable, and kind of lost. As we were talking, I realized that she’s in a situation similar to lots of folks so I thought today I’d briefly share some of the things we discussed in the hopes that since you’re on one side of the hiring equation or the other (looking for work or looking for workers) you’ll chime in. Continue reading →
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August 3, 2010 · 10:42 am
Don’t you get angry when you buy a product and find that it’s not at all what you were expecting? Sometimes I’ll see new products in the supermarket and look at the package and try it. Of course, the beautiful dish on the box looks nothing like the soggy mess on my plate. I never know at whom to get mad – the marketer for doing their job or myself for being such a dope.
The same thing happens in catalogs or on-line. Lovely product descriptions that are only marginally like the thing that arrives in the box a few days later. The funny thing is that people do this every day and they often do it with the single most important thing they have to sell: themselves. Continue reading →
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