Along Came An Article . . .

September 4, 2008

It doesn’t fail, I had decided not to renew my HBR’s subscription and then I get the latest issue where the main article is pure gold. Which three articles have you read in your business life that deserve, in Olympic style, the Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal? Personally my Bronze medal goes to Alan Deutschman’s [...]

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It’s not about the people you surround yourself with

August 20, 2008

There’s a conspiracy of misinformation and half truths, one of them is the quote: “It’s not about you, it’s about the people that you choose to surround yourself with”. I believe consultants must have come up with this quote. It’s not wrong, it’s just that it is a 1/2 truth, for TWO main reasons:

Finding, convincing [...]

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My friend who I’ve never met passed aways today.

July 25, 2008

When was the last time you were inspired? Randy Pausch did that for all of us. When was the last time you changed your mind about something that you used to look at as negative and tranformed it into a positive? Randy told us that brick walls, when things turns out harder than we had [...]

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IF (Business = Art) THEN (Business = Beauty)

February 20, 2008

Interesting video of Moshe Safdie at TED. Notable is the conclusion, where – after quoting Theodore Cook – Moshe recites his own poem:
He who seeks Truth, shall find Beauty; he who seeks beauty, shall find vanity; he who seeks Order, shall find Gratification; he who seeks gratification, shall be disappointed; he who considers himself the [...]

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Using the Einstein’s Logic Riddle to find good (and smart) people?

December 17, 2007

Inspired by: http://www.brain-fun.com/Brain-Teasers/EinsteinsRiddle.php Einstein’s Riddle: Einstein believed that 98% of people could not solve the following logic riddle. Wouldn’t it be interesting to use this as a hiring tool, not so much to make sure your candidate has the answer – although it would surely be nice – but to see how they will approach [...]

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Is Advertising in trouble?

November 21, 2007

Advertising as we know it has been in trouble for quite a while now. Entrepreneurs have known that for quite a while. In the era of accountability thanks to the Internet’s CPA/PPC, advertisement still gets away with promises and “eyeballs” but no measured results.
Of course ad executives will reply with confusing terms like recency (reach [...]

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Secrets of success: Passion, persistence, pushy mothers

November 13, 2007
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Do schools today kill creativity? (Ken Robinson, TEDTalks)

November 13, 2007
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Nick Brien is half right

November 9, 2007

AdAge has a great article on Nick Brien, worldwide CEO of Universal McCann [link].   However I must take objection to a couple of statements:

“When clients say, ‘Talk to me about new media,’ I say, ‘No I am not going to talk to you about new media, I am going to talk to you about [...]

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If you could pass the guacamole, that would be AWESOME!

October 19, 2007

No matter how busy you are, you have to make time to take a peak here and there at Pop! Tech, you will increase your cIQ (cR3AT1vE IQ) by no less than 3 quarks.
The quality of the speakers is surpassed only by the quality of the content, and just tune in at random, and be [...]

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