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Management World

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I’m wondering if any of you have had the opportunity to play the new XBox game built on business? “Management World” didn’t seem as if it would be that interesting but after having played it for several hours, I think it might be my game of the year right behind “Tiger Woods Golf”. Continue reading

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What’s Your Name?

It’s important what we call stuff.   Anyone who has tried to name a product or a company knows how critical that decision can be.  What if “New Coke” had been called something else and had become a brand extension rather than a point of comparison?  Political groups get this too.  “Right To Life” sounds more positive than does “anti-abortion”. Continue reading

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One Hit In The Water

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I’m always looking for good business lessons in places I frequent on the Web.  Hopefully that explains why, dear readers, you get an awful lot of golf and food references as we explore the world of doing smart business.

Today it’s golf and a lesson we can get from a post on Golf.com which provides a blog post that demonstrates how smart businesses operate.  Unfortunately, it does so by showing us an example to the contrary. Continue reading

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