From the category archives:
I’ve posted about the Charter for Compassion before. In this post about a year ago, I said:
Do you want to help solve one of the world’s great problems? This has to be as important as clean energy: religious fundamentalism turning into violence and hatred. The darker side of humanity seems at its worst when powered [...]
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Comedian Robert Klein has a routine where he grabs a consumer fruit drink that claims “contains 10% fruit juice,” and asks: “What about the other 90 percent?”
And the graduating class of Harvard MBAs last week had a special new code, A Promise to Be Ethical in an Era of Immorality that 20% of the graduating MBAs [...]
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The boom in social media, my happy association with some very smart Generation Y people, and a good book or two (Me 2.0, among them, and Dirty Little Secrets of Buzz) have me very intrigued with a broader application of branding.
I was taught to think of branding as a collection of visuals that should work [...]
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Blame the business schools? As the culprits roll out of the fancy offices in New York and Washington, it’s hard to resist the temptation. There have been several thoughtful pieces on that in the last couple months, particularly the New York Times on blaming the business schools, and Are Business Schools to Blame posted late [...]
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Funny coincidence: “mission” the way we use it in business, and “mission” the way the Spanish priests used it to build colonial California. In both cases, it’s foundations. As the Spanish settled California, the conquistadores who explored were followed by…
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What a shame. The wisdom of crowds is a good idea. User reviews is another good idea. You click and then read. There’s the reassurance found in good reviews. How many times have you been influenced by reviewers’ stars for…
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I’m wondering about business ethics, and good vs. bad business, related to the hard sell. Here’s a situation: you’re using a script to sell to people something that is usually good for them, but relatively expensive. As you analyze results,…
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It’s good to be right, but not always. “I told you so” isn’t always a great career move. A guy I know predicts his department reorganization is going to fail. He’s pretty sure he knows what’s wrong and what should…
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In part 1 of this post, I shared a mistake I made mainly by myself, believing what was said by big-company managers instead of what was written in the contract. That, as it turned out, was a big mistake. But…
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