If it doesn’t hurt, it isn’t GIVING.
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If it doesn’t
Posted on 30 November 2007 by retailsmart
Manifesto: 91 things I believe
Posted on 20 November 2007 by retailsmart
Knowledge is fossilised intuition.
Love is built on a foundation of fear.
Your senses bring the trouble.
Pornography is a mirror, Art is a window.
Passion is ignorance.
Enjoyment requires the temporary suspension of reality.
Fun is a requisite illusion (for sanity.)
Hierarchy is a circle.
Nothing is more important.
Personality is the projection of consensus.
All invention is rediscovery.
The end is radical step change.
Everything [...]
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How to influence decision makers
Posted on 20 November 2007 by retailsmart
Need to get the boss to agree to something?An investor to invest?
Check out the link to a Harvard B-School article.(It has at least one little gem…)
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The downside of upside
Posted on 17 November 2007 by retailsmart
The biggest killer of success is success.
(The fear of failure grows in direct proportion to what you have got to lose.)
This Contrarian principle has a number of corollaries:
Bigger is always worse
Innovation leads to less innovation
Growth leads to death
If you think you disagree, just add (ultimately) to the end of each of the above.
Such is Life.
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The Shape of Life
Posted on 15 November 2007 by retailsmart
You must have figured out by now that I an a fan of chaos theory. (And systems thinking.) So I believe there is a KEY, a pattern to the universe that has not yet been discovered. (This image from http://aimath.org/E8/mcmullen.html)
It relates to the story of Garrett Lisi (39) who has developed a theory that unifies [...]
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Shift happens - update
Posted on 15 November 2007 by retailsmart
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The customer service bogey
Posted on 12 November 2007 by retailsmart
It has been 2 weeks of big deadlines - so the blog had to suffer.But I just posted on my RetailSmart blog and for those who don’t normally go there… I wanted to point you there in the meantime - while I work on something for Contrarian…
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