Two days ago, my friend Anu who provides a number of the more lateral things I write about, sent me a link to Yahoo Canada News with an article on pint glass re-design to allegedly reduce the healthcare need in treating victims of bar room brawls. You can read the original article by clicking above [...]
As I mention in my book The Communication Ideal, a massive influence on my thinking was (and still is) The Cluetrain Manifesto. Below is an interview with Doc Searls, one of the writers, published by Conversation Agent (original piece here) which I felt I had to re-print in full….its worth a read, and probably explains [...]
In an industry where new technology threatens an entire chunk of a value chain, I find it interesting how quick and easy we find it to rubbish the threatening factors.
Today I heard (from a senior advisor to bank card companies), that mobiles wouldn’t be a threat to bank cards because it’s currently too awkward to [...]
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In some companies there is a dangerous assumption that people mainly feel lucky they have a job, and are happy working there.
I have seen that those who are restless and looking elsewhere, are often those who would actually add the most value, if managed correctly – or do add the most value but it isn’t [...]
