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Stock Market as Real as $5 Bottled Water
Bottom of Wall Street from FDR (Photo credit: SheepGuardingLlama) If you believe major league sports games’ attendance and consumption by fans is a barometer for how well the overall economy is doing,...
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Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid
It really still is better to look good than to feel good. Some would say that if you look good you probably feel good, too. But, what happens if you were left the choice of one or the other, which...
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Let financial reporting providers offshore at your company’s peril
English: Availability of 4 Mbps-Capable Broadband Networks in the United States by County (Photo credit: Wikipedia) No matter the industry and business you are in, outsourcing and offshoring are two...
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‘No comment’ doesn’t cut it anymore
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the fifth D: All Things Digital conference (D5) in 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The power structures of large corporations need to change. People notice the obvious...
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Twitterless Tiger, Leopard PowerPC users soldier on
Screenshot as a non-logged-in user, taken on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard), Safari Version 4.0.4 (6531.21.10) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The inability of Twitter to work on PowerPC Macs is seemingly another...
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The Thursday brake
Phil on a Stump (Photo credit: voteprime) Time to put the skids on the busiest work day of the week and take a look at the way I see a few things… When a blogger or writer’s headline says, “Don’t click...
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Miley, World’s Most Interesting Man unintentional parenting aids
Miley Cyrus at Kids’ Inaugural (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The world’s most interesting man does not need a poker for his fireplace; he just uses his hand. The rest of us, with the exception of Miley...
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Powerball and the journey to the center of job satisfaction
English: A map showing U.S. states currently offering Powerball and Mega Millions, as of June 2009. Red states offer PowerBall, blue states offer Mega Millions, and fuchsia states offer both. (Photo...
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What the people need is a way to make them smile
Self-taken of Doobie Brothers concert in Melbourne, Australia. They rocked the joint. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Disclaimer: The experiment at the end of this piece never actually happened. I know you...
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Misty, water colored memories of the way PPC users ARE
Kodachrome Memories (Photo credit: Urban Woodswalker) This has been the first year in several that I have not purchased anything new(er) either Apple-related wise or PC Windows-centric wise. I have...
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Critical thinking best antidote to marketing charisma
English: Title: “No, No! Not That Way” Location: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Although they may claim otherwise, marketers still do not quite...
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The interview you’ll wish won’t end: Frank Scoblete–Part I
Frank Scoblete We are pleased to bring to the blog the first installment of our highly anticipated interview series with esteemed guest and friend, Frank Scoblete (aka Scobe), one of America’s favorite...
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The interview you still don’t want to end: Frank Scoblete–Part II
Scobe Signing We bring our readers the second installment of our highly anticipated, three-part interview series with Frank Scoblete (aka Scobe), one of America’s favorite authors and columnists. The...
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The Scobe interview Part III: Is this really it?
Scobe in Boston Today we bring our readers the third and final installment of our wonderfully-received three-part interview series with Frank Scoblete (aka Scobe), one of America’s favorite authors and...
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Eat right, exercise, get plenty of rest and…
English: Histopathogic image of senile plaques seen in the cerebral cortex in a patient with Alzheimer disease of presenile onset. Silver impregnation. The same case as shown in a file...
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Nonproductivity is all it’s cracked up to be
English: Advertising postcard, picture side, for the “Happy Day” washing machine, sold by the National Sewing Machine Co. of Belvidere, Illinois. Opposite side of unmailed card shows boilerplate...
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Serving it up with Earl Dinwiddie
English: City seal of Detroit, Michigan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hittingthesweetspot by Bob Skelley is proud to offer the first of hopefully many question and interview segments with young people....
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What if we lived in a world where advertising honesty was the rule?
Advertising advertising (Photo credit: Toban B.) Marketing would be different and the ads we are pummeled with would go something more like this: ABC Insurance…we know you feel the best neighbors are...
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Doing the right thing is the only motivation for true leaders
Syria (Photo credit: ewixx) As we go through life we have to make decisions in moments of time. That is, we do not have the luxury of time in many instances, when we are faced with tough decisions....
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You never know who you’re talking to
English: Ear. Good for listening. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Or who’s listening to what you’re saying. This is because the biggest breaks that we get in life are often by accident. Timing is...
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