According to EPM Communication’s Entertainment Marketing Letter:
82% of consumers had heard of Apple’s new iPad device but only 9% say they’d like to buy one.
Like the weather – everyone’s talking about it, but nobody ever does anything.
I wasn’t paying attention when the vote was taken, but somewhere along the way leadership became the preeminent business buzz concept of the new millennium.
There are probably more blogs, tweets, books and seminars dealing with leadership than any other business related concept. Some authors have built huge empires by adding one or another derivation of [...]
Joy Behar asks Marcus Buckingham about his StrongLife Test and his latest book on maximizing strengths. As a Buckingham Certified Strengths Trainer, I’ve seen this stuff work first-hand.
USC’s David Logan does a good job of describing the concept of tribes and goes further by delineating five separate tribal “stages” in this talk from TEDxUSC in March 2009. The video is a quickly moving 16 minutes that should add to your understanding of human behavior.
You Can Speak Your Mind, Just Not On My Time
We had dinner last month with my folks. Mom, who is in her mid-70s was complaining (comically) about people who don’t use email.
“I don’t see why these people can’t just sit down and send an email. Who has the time to write letters these days?”
Could you [...]
The recession cloud that’s been hanging over us for the past year or so has given some people the opportunity to examine their strengths and start over in ways they’d only dreamt about when they were riding high.
Even in the best of times, there are people who wake up every morning wishing they could step [...]
As I continue to consider the most effective application for each of these platforms, my thoughts have been on what I am looking for when I visit each.
I recently posted that about 50% of what I get on Twitter has no value to me, and a friend asked me to describe my criteria. At the [...]
When my internet connection goes soft, there’s a series of steps I take to determine where the problem is:
1) Close and reopen Safari. Usually does the trick.
2) Reboot the Mac. Yes even Mac users should reboot occasionally.
3) Repair Permissions. PC users, never mind. You can’t do this.
4) Restart the wireless router. Unplug, count to 30, [...]
Microsoft has applied for trademark registration for a new logo that will be used to identify the company’s new retail outlets.
One of the first two stores will be in Mission Viejo, CA in the same shopping center as an established Apple store. (The other planned opening before Christmas is a store in Scottsdale, AZ).
I am [...]
Review: I am taking measured and intentional approach to developing my personal strategy for Twitter and Facebook.
I want to take advantage of each platform’s unique strengths, just as I do with my own. My first 1o Observations led to the strategy of Twitter being the place where I network and establish connections that are primarily [...]
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