My purple bracelets from A Complaint Free World. arrived today. Darn. They're based on the simple idea that it takes 21 days to break a habit. You wear one, and decide to change the habit. If you relapse, you switch the bracelet to the other wrist and begin again....
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Wish Verizon IOBI would get a clue
Use your product before selling it. Please! Verizon's IOBI service sounds nice: manage your phones from your web browser. It's kind of cool. But they screwed up royally. The product likely cost tens if not hundreds of millions to roll out, and it's clear no one...
Productivity has limits!
Last night at my birthday party, a friend told me how his company insists he show up at work before 9 to make sure everyone's productive. It seems we're always trying to increase productivity. But this isn't sustainable. You see, productivity has its limits. Period. A...
Why did a successful basketball team choose victimhood? Not Imus’s fault.
I've written before on taking responsibility for your actions. It's also key to take responsibility for your REactions. The flap over Imus's racial slur is amazing. Yes, he used a phrase that was offensive. But what's amazing is the incredible, over-the-top display of...
Keeping up with the Joneses
I've been at a conference these last couple of weeks and am here for yet another week before returning to the relative sanity of my office. Meanwhile, a friend pointed me at this gem: http://indexed.blogspot.com/2007/02/relatively.html Keeping up with the Joneses....
Deciding What to Do Your Last Four Weeks at Work
A listener has given notice, and wants to know how to approach The Boss to decide what to work on before leaving for good.
Mind the (credibility) gap…
This isn't exactly a business topic, but an article caught my eye about people who get scientific degrees based on traditional science, then use their credential to lend support to non-scientific groups....
“Bomb hoax” hoax undermines our real emergency response ability
Ok. I can't keep quiet about this any longer. It's driving me nuts. I just read a story titled $2 million US settlement in Boston TV ad bomb hoax. This is a fine example of how the wrong words can do damage, even when intending to inform. "Bomb hoax" implies intent to...
Other than pure profit, why would anyone pretend fast food is glamorous?
In an article on Reuters, Steven Anderson, the National Restaurant Association's Chief Executive, has asked that an ad starring Kevin Federline as a fast-food worker leaves the impression that "working in a restaurant is demeaning and unpleasant and asking the...
The answer to CEO pay: yes, make them pay…
In a recent New York Times article on CEO pay, the reporter closely examines pay practices where companies use peer groups to justify CEO pay. But they don't disclose who those peers are, allowing CEOs to inflate their pay by carefully choosing the peer group. That...