A confusing event?
Thursday, January 03 2013 - 0 comments
What is your feeling about the marketing tactic illustrated in the video? The bank hires the musicians and chorus to stage a flash mob event to celebrate the bank's anniversary. PR goes to new heights since it appears at first to be a spontaneous gathering. I feel good, but at the same time, I feel duped. But maybe that's OK, since I feel good. What is your feeling? Flash Mob Ode to Joy in Sabadell, Spain
Be Practical and Radical
Monday, January 31 2011 - originality, strategy, business-books, innovation - 0 comments
The Idea Festival is warming up for its 2011 Event, to be held September 21-24. It sponsored a Take Your Brain to Lunch seminar featuring William C. Taylor on January 27 at the Kentucky Center for the Arts. Taylor is co-founder of Fast Company Magazine and author of Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself . Check out his blog . Are you learning as fast as the world is changing? It's the Age of Disruption; originality is the acid test of strategy, says Taylor. He is pictured, center, below. His Practically Radical book...
Give this guy a citation
Wednesday, December 15 2010 - speed, sport, new-year - 0 comments
We hear about mountain climbers-- the quest, dangers, drama, and applaud their exploits. But what about those whose creed is the downhill course? In this video you will experience the dangers, drama and quest TO REACH THE BOTTOM alive and well. It's a new paradigm. In the New Year and the new decade, will you strive to reach the top, or instead hang tough on a high speed journey to a new, harder-to-reach destination? In this generation tenacity and perseverance are still important, but speed is everything. FRAMED-Andi Wittmann Rider profile from Felix Urbauer on Vimeo ....
Cell phone dangers
Tuesday, December 07 2010 - cell-phones - 0 comments
This is not an opinion but I do not want to be thought of as one who would cry, "Wolf!" The article linked 1. explains how a man recently was injured by an exploding Droid phone, 2. references two deaths from exploding cell phones, and 3. references an injured woman whose phone caught fire while it was charging. So, be careful that your phone does not overheat. ! I also recently read that a pregnant woman who uses a cell phone may be endangering her preborn child. Since that news item was disputed by some, I'm not including a link....
Turn on a dime
Tuesday, November 30 2010 - fastzone-com - 0 comments
The expression means "to change course quickly." In business, it refers to the small company without bureaucratic contraints. This came to mind over the Thanksgiving holiday as I visited family in North Carolina where I have a nephew-in-law and niece who have started up a CrossFit Elite Fitness business. Recently they began a session for children. The final leg of the class was a game of duck-duck goose. I saw that a small entity can outrun a larger one if the little guy runs fast, and it takes the larger one a moment to jump up and pursue (NOT shown). It has often been said that a small...
No free lunch
Thursday, October 28 2010 - internet, free-stuff - 0 comments
I love all the free internet stuff, but how free is it? Sixty billion dollars is a lot, I think. Not sure. That is what Google saves in tax loopholes. Click here to understand how YouTube is made possible.
