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An ongoing series of haiku inspired by the recently witnessed antics of Subaru drivers. Spring opens its arms Snow melts; life and roads emerge Subarus still slow
Feel deep inner peace Outback turns left from right lane Need valium now Previous explanation and Subaruku [...] [Note: it looks like the sites mentioned in this post have been taken down] I ran across a reference to the site, The History of Branding on the trythisonforsize blog. If you’re at all interested in brands and branding or corporate takeovers and spinouts, you gotta check this site out. Each one of the logos [...] Leaders have to be positive. After all, how often do people choose to follow someone who’s negative all the time? Leader: I know it sucks and what we’re about to do hasn’t worked in our previous attempts and we’ll probably all fail again this time, but follow me into the abyss anyway. Those led: Sure, or maybe [...] Incentives differ from rewards in that they are known up front. While a reward is granted to recognize an action or achievement that has already taken place, the goal of an incentive is to induce behavior that results in such an action or achievement. In this way, an incentive works like a carrot, motivating an individual [...] Baseball season is just starting, but I’m having trouble switching my thoughts from football. It was easier last year because as I blogged about, Bill Belichick was scaring me to death. The team had no free agent activity other than letting many good players leave. This season is different, though. The Patriots have been [...] My general view of business (and life) is that humility is a big part of success. But that’s almost assuredly more representative of my value system than of any generally accepted business wisdom. In fact, there may be strong evidence to the contrary. There are of course many quiet, humble people who have run [...] As a guy who spends a reasonable amount of time cycling and even more time thinking about why I can’t ride faster and further than I do, I found, David Shenk’s new post titled, The Nature and Nurture of Muscles enlightening. The post, on his The Genius in All of Us blog, discusses how muscles are built and [...] iinovate has a great podcast with accompanying YouTube videos of an interview with Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. They have broken out one segment where a luminary, in this case Andy Grove of Intel fame, asks a question. Grove queries: “From the outside it looks like Google’s organizational structure is best described by . [...] Last night, my little, obscure blog started getting attacked with spam. 24 hours later, it’s slowed a bit, but I’m still getting about 20 spam comments posted per hour. Keep in mind that there are only about 200 posts on the blog to source that number of comments. I now know where to buy all [...] A while back, I did a post titled Work:Life Balance – It’s a Perspective Thing in which I talked about my belief that everyone needs to find their own version of balance and that biasing that balance to the work end of the spectrum is not a bad thing. That post turned out to be one [...] |
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