Posts tagged: communication

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 , , , , | 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 , , , , , , | 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 , , , , , | Comments Off

He Who Controls Images, Controls People

With all the recent buzz on the Inter­net and else­where about Google’s impend­ing pull-out from China, much men­tion has been made of the cen­sored con­tent that Google.cn presents to users in China.  Con­trol of infor­ma­tion is fun­da­men­tal to total­i­tar­ian con­trol of peo­ple.  For that rea­son, Google.cn could not present, for exam­ple, images of the 1989 […]

Monday January 18th, 2010 in , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Do Event Planning Backwards Only If You’re the Gambling Type

When plan­ning for a major event involv­ing mul­ti­ple par­ties and agen­cies, par­tic­u­larly when mul­ti­ple spe­cial­ties are involved, effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion is absolutely crit­i­cal.  Every­one needs to under­stand who’s in charge, where they will get infor­ma­tion from, and who they will give infor­ma­tion to.  You need to have a solid com­mand, con­trol and com­mu­ni­ca­tion (C3) struc­ture in […]

Friday January 15th, 2010 in , , | Comments Off

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