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- The Weird Rules of Creativity
- The Weird Rules of CreativityUnexpected Consequences: BallardBallard may not be the best example of success. It just sold its automotive fuel cell assets to Daimler and Ford, including all of the IP, test equipment and inventory with transfer of the employees and leaving development to Daimler and Ford at,...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
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- The Weird Rules of Creativity
- The Idea in Brief Hire people you don't like, then promote them when they defy you. Wholeheartedly commit to risky projects. Get your happiest workers arguing. And keep your innovators away from customers. Recipes for disaster?...
- Articles 2007-12-13
- Rules for Marketing
- I’ve been a little hard on Marketing lately, so I thought it would be a good time to be helpful and provide some Really Useful Rules for Marketing to Follow. To keep it real, I’ll present a brief case study based upon my decades of experience in high tech,...
- Blog posts 2007-05-18
- 10 Rules for Writing a Winning Proposal
- If you're going to cut big deals, you're probably going to write some proposals. A while back, I had a conversation with Tom Sant, probably world's top expert in helping sales teams to write better proposals. Here are ten of his top rules for writing a winning proposal: ...
- Blog posts 2009-05-25
- HBR IdeaCast: Where Does Strategic Innovation Come From?
- By the time you hear about a groundbreaking idea, your competition has heard about it too â€" and may even be using it. George Stalk describes how managers can collect faint ideas, watch trends before they hit, and gather the necessary information to decide which ideas will give your business...
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Breaking all the rules; Brassard shares knowledge, encourages new businesses
- David Brassard doesn't mind that some people think he's crazy in the way he does business. In fact, he kind of likes it that way. First of all, the owner and president of Silicone Solutions owes no money on his 5-year-old consulting and custom manufacturing firm in Twinsburg....
- Research articles 2002-05-06
- Taming a Type-A Culture Gone Wild
- When the quirky cleaning products company Method discovered its free-for-all culture didn?t scale, things got messy. Method founders Adam Lowry left and Eric Ryan at their San Francisco office. But several years ago, after a period of rapid sales growth and frantic hiring, the free flow...
- Articles 2009-11-24
- Stuff My Dad Says ... About Living With His Boomerang Kid
- The author of the popular [Stuff]MyDadSays feed on Twitter — an adult child living at home — shares a few tips for parents on how to get along with their kids who have returned to the roost. Among them: Set clear rules on expected behavior, make them do chores, and,...
- Articles 2009-10-12
- The ABCs of Closing
- The ABCs of Closingthese tips aren't that goodhmm... I have previously learned that getting a customer to say why he/she doesn't want to buy will create a negative mindset and will re-inforce the reason why he/she should't buy. In my humble opinion this is not a good sales approach.closingif prospects...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- PetSmart, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question is from Matthew Fassler from Goldman Sachs, your question please. Matthew Fassler-Goldman Sachs Good afternoon and I appreciate your comments on capital allocation. Two questions, I'd like to ask you first about that, did you talk...
- Earnings calls 2008-03-05
- Dear Fed: What Do You Have to Hide?
- David Merkel submits: Bloomberg sues the Fed for refusing to disclose what sort of collateral they are lending against. I come at this from having worked in insurance for two decades. Insurers have to disclose every asset that they own in their Statutory filings. When I looked at a...
- External links 2008-11-08
- Snow storm.(press and politics)
- The hand that rules the press ... rules the country--Judge Learned Hand When new White House press secretary Tony Snow whirled through the revolving door that separates the mass media from Washington officialdom, there was shock in some press quarters. What in the...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- Why Sales Pros Hate Instant Messaging
- The results of my highly unscientific poll suggest that, while sales pros have love email and cellular phones, they hate Instant Messaging, at least when it comes to selling. IM got ranked on the bottom, or near the bottom, by nearly every person who commented. Why...
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- The Ethics of Saying No
- The Ethics of Saying NoThe Ethics of Saying NoIt is interesting to look at teh image presented by the word "no". I do not want tro define it, Webster does a good job of it, but the impact of teh word is judgemental and leaves both parties in a...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-16
- Night game brings out bizarre questions
- Ever since the Utah game time changed from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday - when the projected forecast includes a daytime high of 46 degrees and possible rain - Air Force's marketing office has gotten a couple of weird calls. Like the one from a fan Wednesday asking...
- Research articles 1999-10-14
- No kidding.. I's slept with only one woman in my life: Interview:
- ON stage, Lee Evans has just broken a world record. He performed in Manchester last month in front of 10,108 people. It was the biggest live audience for a single comedy show on the planet. Ever. If Lee Evans obeyed the normal rules of showbiz this would...
- Research articles 2005-12-04
- Police Release Photos of ShamWow Pitchman's Blood-Spattered, Condom-Filled Hotel Room
- It's old news that ShamWow and SlapChop pitchman Vince Shlomi was arrested after he had a fight with a hooker in a Miami hotel. (And that, the same week, it was revealed that he had filed a weird lawsuit against some Scientologists whom he claims ripped off his SlapChop device.)...
- Blog posts 2009-04-09
- Morgan Stanley Hurt by Credit Spreads
- Ockham Research submits: “What you’re seeing here is a weird accounting adjustment, $1.5 billion in a net revenue hit from the improvement in their bonds. That means it costs a lot more to buy back Morgan Stanley’s own bonds and under the accounting rules they have got to take...
- External links 2009-04-22
- In Depth: 10 ways to use social media to get a new job
- Traditionally it was employers who had to make themselves visible when looking to fill vacancies – posting adverts in the press, then choosing a pool of candidates from a veritable tsunami of applicants. But not any more. There's mounting evidence that personnel specialists are now scouring social...
- News items 2009-10-18
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