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Once a year, or so, I like to step away from my practice of providing something provocative to ponder and instead introduce you to some sort of new tool or gadget I have found extremely helpful. This time it’s the concept of Life Hacking – Defined by Wikipedia as: any small productivity tool that solves Continue reading Freeing Up Your Mind So You Can Think (Differently) Consider this: Emeril Lagasse and I purchase the same ingredients at our local grocery store and people flock like wolves to his table, but not mine. John Steinbeck and I have the exact same 26-letter alphabet from which to construct stories and there are entire shelves of his books in the library, but not mine. Continue reading Are You Protecting Pebbles I am one of those people who can latch on to subtle differences in word meanings. You will often find me in the midst of an argument that includes someone saying, “Isn’t this just a matter of semantics?” And, they’re usually correct.MOST semantic disagreements are minor and not worth the effort – but I want Continue reading The Difference Between THE and A (Note – this appeared first as a monthly column emailed to subscribers). The world has been consumed this past week, as it is every year at this time, by the theory and practice of setting resolutions. News broadcasters and print journalists have trotted out their annual story of peoples’ desire to change something about themselves Continue reading Redefining Resolutions “Nothing in the business world is more overrated than a “good idea”. Nothing. I’ve never gone into an organization anywhere in the world that didn’t have – with a little prompting and encouragement – more good ideas than it could possibly use. Indeed, most firms enjoy a surplus – a glut – of good ideas. Continue reading Innovation is Over-rated I am intrigued by TV commercials for the Kia Sportage, particularly one named Key Toss. Perhaps you’ve seen it: a woman tosses the keys to her Sportage out the window, where they are caught by a man in a business suit who drives the car for a while and then tosses the keys to a Continue reading It's not MY car, it's OUR car This guy is amazing. The creator of Purple Cows and Free Prizes has a new book coming in 8 weeks and his approach to marketing is truly remarkable – but then you shouldn’t expect anything less. Check this out. You might spend some time at Brand Autopsy, a pleasantly iconoclastic anthology of news and thought related to corporate image management. I was especially interested in this piece on the Kool-Aid Point. In Richard Linklater’s Bad News Bears remake, the team of misfits led by Billy Bob Thorton do not win the ultimate championship game. (Sorry if that spills the beans for you). In a TIME interview (July 18), Linklater says he wasn’t surprized when kids and parents watching advance runs of the film differed in their Continue reading Losing is Reality Folks in Nike’s “Innovation Kitchen” have developed their latest generation of running shoe by suggesting that serious athletes should train with their feet au naturel. Interviews with track coaches exposed the practice of running barefoot during training and the Kitchen went to work trying to emulate the way feet work when they aren’t wrapped in Continue reading Running barefoot at Nike |
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