From the monthly archives:

July 2011

Right on Seth!

July 26, 2011

I started blogging as a way to get some things off my chest. This is a place for me to capture my ideas and, hopefully, share them with people who find them inspiring. Below is a great post from Seth Godin that echoes (undeliberately of course) some of the points I’ve been making. Here are […]

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Money does not create value

July 25, 2011

I just read an article about RIM cutting jobs. I’m really tired of this. It’s just the wrong approach to running a business. Imagine a businessperson said to you “I’m taking $1 million and throwing it in the garbage. It’s not doing anything productive for me.” Of course you’d tell them how stupid that is. […]

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Brand loyalty

July 5, 2011

Many brands spend a lot of time thinking about loyalty. So much so, in fact, that the people who manage these brands have invented a new word – “loyalize.” By “loyalty” they mean the rate at which their consumers continue to buy their brand. This is all about them. It’s all about what the people […]

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Employer engagement

July 3, 2011

“Employee engagement” is a term we hear a lot of. We know that companies tend to perform better when their employees are engaged – when they feel connected with the company’s purpose (which means the company has one), when they perceive that they have agency, when they feel fairly treated by the company… Many companies […]

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