Let’s have some fun. Grab a pen and some paper and draw a cup or a car or a house. Done? Great. There’s this term – canonical perspective. It comes out of some research first presented in 1981 by a guy named Palmer. The short version of what he did was to ask folks to draw him something and he found that most people drew the object from the same perspective – slightly above, looking down, and a bit off to either the left or right. Is that sort of what your drawing looks like? Well, this point of view has been dubbed the “canonical perspective” and it’s today’s business thought. Continue reading
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Facts About Statements vs. Statements of Fact
I am the best consultant in the world. I hereby proclaim myself the king of all consultants. There I said it. It is now absolutely true that I said it and if a blog or newspaper or one of you quotes me as saying it, that quote is 100% true. You’ll not get me denying having said it. There’s only one problem with that fact: the statement itself may not be true. So what does this have to do with you and how you approach things? Continue reading
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Kitchen Bouquet and Your Business
It’s Friday and so we turn our attention to something food-related. With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I took notice of something in the store the other day and it triggered a thought. The product was Kitchen Bouquet, which is something one might use in making gravy. Of course, it has business implications as well. Continue reading
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