Harnassing meaning. Unleashing potential.
Why is our first reaction to reach for the lawyers?
If you haven’t heard, the Apple / Google wars heat up. Both of these companies are poised to become huge players in the emerging “super phone” market. Which means that billions, if not trillions, of dollars are at stake. This is why Apple’s lobbing of legal grenades is so important. With filings targeted at Google’s phones (specifically the HTC models), Apple is saying they won’t take iPhone encroachment lightly.
This isn’t new.
Apple and Microsoft used to be at war. ...
Psychology. It influences our thoughts, our actions, and the world around us. None of us can escape it. And we’re not talking about Freud here.
A great myth in life is that your work can make you happy. It can’t. The only way work brings meaning to your life is if you bring meaning to your work.
Whether we work from home, in an office, or in the field, we spend more time working than any other activity. Maybe it’s time we looked into what that means.
Volunteers are special people. They agree to do a lot of work that you and I would only do if someone paid us. They save organizations, time, money, benefits, energy and a host of other things. Often they are our biggest supporters.
Yet we don’t always treat them that way. We can easily lose sight of what drives them, what motivates them. This isn’t a condemnation of us. We often have good intentions to work with volunteers, but we are busy too. And sometimes volunteer things get pushed to the bottom…
When this ...
Most of us don’t have the luxury of working from home. Most of us are still trapped in the cubicle farms or factory floors. Of course that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. But many times it is. Besides all of the usual hassles and issues of working with others (to err is human!), there is something I think we overlook – noise.
I was thinking about that today as I was having a hard time concentrating. In my current consulting role I spend a lot of time in a cubicle. Why? Because sometimes there is no better way to ...
Permission marketing is what is driving the success of the internet. At least that’s what I believe. For instance, I think that it’s an honor you are reading this post. I don’t think I have the right to cram things down your throat. And I believe it literally costs you something to pay attention to what I am writing (or else why do we say pay attention?)
I don’t have a right to any of that, I need to seek your permission (verbally or otherwise) to earn the privilege of ...
Even in the days of instant email, instant videos and instant oatmeal, some things are just too slow.
this weekend I ordered a new mouse for my computer. My old mouse, which I have owned for more than a decade, finally died. So after much deliberation I finally settled on a Logitech G500. I had considered a more expensive Logitech mouse, but decided it wasn’t worth the $30 or $40 difference.
Well Amazon “knew” I was looking at mice and today sent me an email announcing a sale for ...
Things have been a bit slow around here. There have been good and bad reasons for that. The good reasons are involving starting a new consulting project which is eating up a huge amount of my time, while also getting engaged. To a girl, not a consulting project. The bad news is that I have just been lazy (in some sense) about getting things updated on the site. It’s not that I have stopped writing. In fact I have a few month backup of content I’ve created. It’s that I’ve been holding off on doing that until I upgraded the ...
