A wealthy old Gentleman decides to go on a hunting safari in Africa, taking his faithful, elderly Jack Russell named Killer, along for the company.
One day the old Jack Russell starts chasing rabbits and before long, discovers that he’s lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the [...]
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If you are befuddled by what Web 2.0 is all about, here is a great analogy (even if I say so myself):Think…TALKBACK RADIO.
Web 2.0 is that… on the internet.(Click on the link of the title to see a cool directory of Web 2.0 sites/ applications.)
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I don’t go to banks often- for me it is mostly an online experience. To my surprise, I saw this sign inside the bank today. It is evidence that they know what they are doing wrong, but I wonder if they can fix it?
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Back to the series on failure. (It is so uplifting, right?)
Employees are led to believe that good leaders (you know those creatures that all managers must aspire to become) are able to ‘see the big picture’. Many managers derogatorily talk about people who micro-manage and who are ‘detail-orientated’ and hence such behaviour is shunned. [...]
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Cliches are usually/ often mocked and derided. (See list below.)
My take on it is that cliches (in a business sense) is really just the art of business grappling with becoming a science, and cliches become the language of the emerging science. Cliches are not bad because they are popular sayings, they are only bad if [...]
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Check this out for a few part tricks…Alas, the mysteries of the universe ain’t what it is cracked up to be…
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Through my association with the MGSM (as an adjunct lecturer on the MBA program) I get access to really cool stuff. Now you can too … and don’t say I never share
Find out how you’d perform running an Australian company for a week by taking up the online challenge at www.ceosurvivor.com
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I have been silent for a wee while. Working hard at being busy is one reason. The other is that I have started another blog and that takes up some time. (The new blog is more technical/ functional, and arguably better for business. Contrarian is just for fun.)
So just for the hell of it, I [...]
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Selling is about making a personal, emotional connection that results in a sufficient degree of ‘LIKING’.
Know your offer/ pitch/ proposition.
Articulate it sweetly, easily, convincingly, appealingly. (Being authentically passionate helps a great deal.)
The sale is made [...]
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