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
Tag Archives: business thinking
False Advertising
Filed under Growing up, Helpful Hints, Reality checks
Being Up Front
Does anyone you know enjoy being lied to? I suppose there are the harmless lies you hear such as “you look great today” when you really don’t or the benign praise heaped on a host’s tasteless food. But I’m not thinking about those. Instead, I’m thinking about the destructive lies told in business, particularly the ones that involve managing people. Let me tell you what I mean. Continue reading
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The Buffet Line
It’s Friday so we’ll start with food, and having just been in Las Vegas, it’s an easy topic to discuss. I think Vegas might be the second-best food city in the country in many ways (behind only NYC, of course). I’ll qualify that by stating that one needs a pretty hefty bankroll to take full advantage of the best of what’s available there, but let’s put that aside for a moment.
Every top practitioner of damn near every cuisine in the world has a restaurant in town. It’s an all-star aggregation, really, and not even New York has as many top chefs (where NYC kills Vegas is in hundreds of high quality ethic dining experiences as well as food carts). Yet with all this quality (and not all of it is expensive) around, you see them lined up at the casino buffets, eating unlimited amounts of food in between blackjack sessions. How does this relate to work? Continue reading
Filed under food, Helpful Hints, Reality checks
Consult Keith 