Archive for the ‘business’ Category
Friday, March 14th, 2008
I like lists.
I stumbled upon a great list of called To Lead, You Have to Follow: 8 Traits of Effective IT Leaders
Leadership means focusing on the needs of others, not yourself
Leadership comes from your actions, not your title
Leadership makes you accountable, even if it's not your fault
Leadership is not a ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
I just got back from vacation and if I didn't have a backlog of posts already (about 50 blog posts in various stages), I certainly do now.
Let me start with my frustration with Best Buy. Several of my friends already refuse to shop there for various reasons. As if ...
Posted in business, retail | 6 Comments »
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
It seems like the minute you subscribe to a magazine they start sending you renewal forms.
The time to renew my Inc. and Fast Company subscriptions finally rolled around.
I'll walk through the renewal process for Inc. below, but the process is the same for Fast Company, as the parent company for ...
Posted in advertising, business, copy, direct, retail | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
From the world of The Consumerist comes an interesting article in the age of privacy, security and identity theft: Store's Can't Force You to Show ID with Your Credit Card.
How often are you asked for ID and does anyone even check the signature? A few years I randomly signed ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
I'm not the only one that relies on caffeine to keep things moving during the day. As it turns out, according to a WorkPlace Media survey, 83% of American workers rely on caffeine, mostly coffee, to get them through. I first read about the survey in the November ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
I'm a big fan of research and numbers. External sources and research helps validate your opinion.
Of course, there will always be cases (no pun intended), such as Crystal Pepsi that tend to test well, but flop when rolled out to the masses. Research will only take you so far.
But, ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
I'm a fan of beer. And going green. although not the two together unless its St. Patrick's day.
Now that I have an HDTV, I've been focusing my TV watching on all thats hi-def. Anything nature or travel related is great. As are sports.
I was happy to stumble ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
The tag line on the ISU Alumni page is Show your pride with the ISU Bank of America Credit Card. The pride of the alumni association is going to be slightly tarnished for a while until the sting wears off from the recent headlines.
Let me start off by saying ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
For those following the news, GM workers went on strike this morning. [via]
I won't go into a deep discussion about the good / bad of unions, but I personally don't think the UAW is relevant in today's business world, but thats for another day. Theres economist and plenty of ...
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
My wife is about 35 weeks pregnant, so we've had our fair amount of doctor visits recently.
Along with doctor visits comes a large amount of time waiting.... and waiting... and waiting..
This time, I helped pass some of the time by spinning in the doctors chair.
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This ...
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