The Consulting Firms of the world seem to win the recruiting game, hands-down. It’s not because of money, though; it’s because they treat recruiting as seriously as sales.
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Tell your customers the truth
One thing to understand about corporate communications: your customers aren't stupid. They're at least smart enough to want to use your product. Treat them accordingly. I don't understand who these communications doobies are who believe if you lie to people about...
Politics. Corruption. The destruction of democracy.
I don't like to get too political too often, since my Blog is mainly about business. But sometimes, the depth of our current incompetence is just too great to ignore. We've repealed Habeas Corpus, our Congress just approved Bush warrentless spying on Americans, and it...
Americans should be very worried about our future.
I just read an article in the New York Times documenting a teacher resigning when a student who didn't remotely pass a class was bumped to a 'pass' to meet graduation rates for the school. While I can understand why incompetent school administrators might rely on...
Take a vacation, if only for perspective.
Just returned to the so-called "real world" after a week camping at a festival. Well, car camping. We had running water, a little shack happily selling us gyros, port-a-potties, and garbage collection. So we weren't really roughing it. But happily, the campground had...
So how many online communities do we really need?
A friend invited me to yet another social networking site. Now I'm on MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn, Doostang, Gather, and probably a few others I can't remember off the top of my head. So when is enough enough, already? Simply filling out all those online profiles...
When you define life as war, you get hurt.
Wow. Walking through the airport, I saw a sign: Shell Oil says: When Mother Nature doesn't back down, we have experts up to her challenge. Think about that framing! Shudder. That's the framing of extinction. Mother Nature, dear Shell Oil, is what gives us life. Food....
American Express usury highlights an economic culture gone very, very wrong.
Today's project: apply for a "Get travel points" American Express card and cancel my generic American Express card. The whole experience was an eye-opener. But apparently only to me. It points to a company gone sadly wrong, and even worse, a culture dissolving. The...
Have you seen Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty?
I've totally internalized the media images of the Ideal Male Body. Abercrombie & Fitch, galore. So, in a very 21st-century way, I often feel inadequate with my body. Like every time I walk past a mirror. Especially in summer. The amazing thing is that we've...
It’s harder to be a hypocrite if you’re liberal, but not for any moral reasons…
I’m watching Congressman Vitter reporting back to work, after being exposed as a hypocrite, being a big proponent of the Sanctity of Marriage, despite having visited the DC Madame. I was wondering why it always seems to be the Conservatives who ooze hypocrisy. Rev....