Another business lesson from politics today. Then again, politics is a business so I’m not sure why I sound a little surprised. Despite the fact that I don’t express political points of view in this space, I guess you can tell I pay a lot of attention to that business as well as the ones I write about more often.
We’re in the midst of primary season for one party. Unless you’re under a rock, you have probably heard that former governor Romney just won the Florida primary pretty convincingly and there are calls for other candidates to admit defeat and let Romney focus on the general election. The three other remaining candidates have refused to pack it in, and therein lies the business lesson. Continue reading
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Jumping To Conclusions
Filed under Helpful Hints, Thinking Aloud, What's Going On
Age, Haste, and Waste
As I was searching for today’s topic, I found an article I had clipped a month ago and promptly forgot about. I’m not sure if it’s an age-related thing but I think we’re all familiar with the expression “senior moment.”
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Some of my friends have them (if I do, I must have forgotten) and they also seem to react a bit more slowly to questions as well. That’s why I clipped the article, which comes from Scientific American and deals with a study on older folks and reaction times. As it turns out, the fact that we take longer to make decisions as we age has nothing to do with impaired mental ability. It also raises a business point.
Filed under Growing up, Thinking Aloud
Thinking Differently
Apple used the slogan in its advertising “think different” years ago. Over time, I think we all can appreciate how that mantra, perhaps grammatically incorrect or perhaps not, has come to be reality in the types of products produced by Apple. I’ve always admired that much of what Apple produces isn’t original per se – there were mp3 players before the iPod, for example – but Apple manages to take a product sector as it evolves, marry it to better technology, and change everything.
What has me babbling like an Apple fanboy this morning? A piece of research on TV‘s of course, and a thought about how some research points to the need to think out of the box. Continue reading
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