Category: Business Stuff

& White View">Words Define Perspectives: The Security World’s Black & White View

Many movies, par­tic­u­larly block­buster action movies, are very sim­plis­tic in their por­tray­als and char­ac­ter­i­za­tions. Good guys vs bad guys — that’s it, that’s all you need to know, that’s all they’re telling you. That’s fine when it’s for enter­tain­ment, although even then my opin­ion is that more nuanced and com­plex char­ac­ters make for more interesting […]

Monday April 26th, 2010 in Communication, Emergency Management, News & Commentary | Comments Off

Nurture Your First-Followers, or You’re Just a Lone Nut!

Here is a fan­tas­tic lit­tle video that I came across, demon­strat­ing how vital it is for would-be lead­ers to nur­ture their first fol­low­ers.  The video’s nar­ra­tion says every­thing that I could say about this video. I’ll warn you that it’s got the same smooth track­ing and motion that Blair Witch Project did — that means, put […]

Sunday February 14th, 2010 in Leadership | Comments Off

Deep Lessons from the World of Pasta Sauce

When it comes to human behav­ior and human pref­er­ences, there is no one best way to do things.  Tay­lorism is fine and dandy for auto­matic pro­duc­tion in fac­to­ries, but as a frame­work for think­ing about the world, “the one best way” is a sure way to busi­ness dis­as­ter (or at least sub-par per­for­mance) and an […]

Saturday January 30th, 2010 in Leadership, Marketing, Tastes & Experiences | Comments Off

What Do You Do? How You Phrase the Answer Can Make or Break You

Mar­ket­ing isn’t some­thing just for the mar­ket­ing depart­ment.  It’s some­thing we all do, but it’s just that most of us do it very poorly.  The clip below is talk­ing about indie musi­cians mar­ket­ing them­selves — you know, the kind that the big labels haven’t picked up, nobody knows about, and are try­ing to get people […]

Saturday January 30th, 2010 in Communication | Comments Off

Did You Know Addresses Don’t Work the Same Way Everywhere?

It’s really cool to find out that I’ve been using a basic assump­tion that I didn’t even know was there. There are some things that are so fun­da­men­tal to the way that peo­ple where we grow up think that we don’t even real­ize that cer­tain basic assump­tions have been made.  It is not until we see […]

Saturday January 30th, 2010 in Communication, Leadership, Other Fun Stuff | Comments Off

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