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June 30, 2005
Looking for an Up-tick…
Published 4:27pm in StratBlog Add CommentTags: accountability
, iraq , spinning
James Hoagland of the Washington Post was part of a panel of reporters on the 6/28/05 edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show discussing President Bush’s nationally televised speech of the same evening.
Hoagland said, the White House has a “different sense of timing” with respect to the Iraq war. “They lay back fror a long [...]
In My money, your cause, what now?, Seth Godin writes about the growing conflict between corporate practices and the values of individual consumers:
“I have a valued business partner that creates products I’m ashamed of. What do I do now? Do I have an ethical obligation to change how I work in order to make my [...]
- Steve Jobs: Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Steve Jobs, college dropout, gave an amazing commencement speech at Stanford: You’ve got to find what you love. Highly recommended!
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- Productive Blogging Tips:
Are you blogging or thinking about blogging? Keith Robinson has written two excellent posts on this subject:
He presents a mix of blogging/writing and time management ideas. Two of my favorites:
- Tell a story. Storytelling is probably the best way to share information with a wide audience. It’s a fun way to write, helps you inject some personality into your writing and emulates a great conversational tone.
- Break longer posts up into several smaller posts. This not only gives you the feel good illusion of getting more into your blog, it helps your readers take in what you have to say.
Keith has also launched Successful Blog.Now to put some of this into practice…
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- On Stolen Ideas:
Howard Aiken: “Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.” (from The Quotations Page)
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- Are You and Your Company Gym Fighters?
qualityg says …: “When too much internal competition is allowed to exist in your company or in the boxing ring you will only learn to beat the style of the person sitting next to you, and you will hurt the teams overall effort. By understanding your opponents weaknesses by getting out in the market or watching your competition fight you take that back and move your team in the direction to win, everyone needs to be on the same page striving for the same goals. If the leaders of the company or the gym have no aim or purpose then you might win a few fights, but you will never win the prize.” (emphasis added)
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- Marketing has a marketing problem:
Seth’s Blog: “Marketing is not about trickery or even insincerity. It’s about spreading ideas that you believe in, sharing ideas you’re passionate about… and doing it with authenticity. Marketing is about treating prospects and customers with respect, and realizing that it’s easier to grow the amount of business you do with happy people than it is to find new strangers to accost.”
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Lisa Haneberg on standards for managers, including:
Managers ought to have the courage to make tough decisions and solve difficult problems.
I agree, but consider this story. During a meeting to discuss our strategic plan, one of my colleagues asked, “What’s the biggest problem for managers around here?”
Before any of us could respond, he went to the [...]
Dan Gillmor on Ray Ozzie’s talk at the Tech Awards:
One of the people he worked with rarely came into the office, but communicated via the era’s equivalent of instant messaging. The colleague’s insights were brilliant but he typed incredibly slowly, Ozzie recalled.
Then they met, and the colleague was a quadraplegic who typed by holding a [...]
- Get Small!
Seth Godin:
Small is the new big only when the person running the small thinks big.
Source: Seth’s Blog: Small is the new big [9:48am] - (add comment)Don’t wait. Get small. Think big.
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