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Business Excellence

Forget the A-List After All

You’ve got to read “Is the Tipping Point Toast?” [http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/122/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html] by Clive Thompson in FastCompany. The gist of Thompson’s piece, based on the work of Duncan Watts of Yahoo Research, is that the theory that a select few “key influencers” matter

Why You Need to be Organised to be Creative

Mark McGuinness over at the Business of Design Online [http://www.businessofdesignonline.com/] blog has written a series of articles (see links bel0w), on getting organized and improving creativity. Often many of us pitch creativity versus organization and structure erroneously. I believe organization and structure create (pun intended) an environment

over 1k rebates for Fry’s found in dumpster

Photo (cc) by Kamal H. 1,300 unopened rebate forms a Mercury News reporter found in a dumpster [https://www.mercurynews.com/2007/09/05/tech-talk-unopened-rebate-requests-found-in-san-jose-dumpster/] near Vastech, a rebate processor for Fry’s [https://consumerist.com/2007/09/06/1300-unopened-rebate-applications-found-in-dumpster/index.html] Electronics [http://consumerist.com/consumer/electronics/]. When

How to Write a Business Plan: Ten Questions with Tim Berry

Guy Kawasaki has posted a Q&A on his blog [http://blog.guykawasaki.com/] with Tim Berry the President of Palo Alto Software [http://www.paloalto.com/], the makers of Business Plan Pro.Â 10 Questions about business planning.Â My favorite response to the question of common mistakes was:

Worldwide Anti-US Feelings Suggest Troubling Trend

Leadership: Worldwide Anti-US Feelings Suggest Troubling Trend [http://blog.fastcompany.com/experts/jblumenfeld/2007/07/worldwide_antius_feelings_sugg.html] : > Anyone that travels the global marketplace knows that negative views of the US are widely held. What often surprises people is the nations in which the population tends to view

Guy Kawasaki shares 10 tips on innovation - Network World

The former Apple software evangelist is managing director at venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures and has written several books including, The Art of the Start and How to Drive Your Competition Crazy. Kawasaki this week turned up at CA World 2007 in Las Vegas to deliver a keynote address

Ten of the Worst Internet Marketing Videos

Matt Coddington of NetBusiness Blog [http://www.netbusinessblog.com/2007/02/13/top-10-worst-internet-marketing-videos-ever/] has compiled a top 10 list of worst Internet marketing videos ever. While he claims “top ten” status for his selections, the optimist in me believes things can get even worse–I mean better, no I did