Category: Influence
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Facebook “Like”
Just because I don’t “like” you doesn’t mean that I don’t like you. What I’m talking about is the “like” option on Facebook. I have pretty much turned down all the pages, bands, and whatever that has been sent my way that asks me to “like” your stuff. In many…
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The Truth and Speaking
I remember a saying that a really good friend taught me – when I was in high school. It had to do with Truth and Speaking. The line was: when you speak, you should always speak the truth, but when you know the truth, you don’t always have to speak.…
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Be Unique, But Belong 3
I was listening to the song Creep by Radiohead this morning. I was listening to the Scala and Kolacny Choir version – the one on the Social Network movie trailer. I know it’s not a new song – and there are some choice expletives in it. It’s a song that…
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Passion for Conservation
I recently helped a friend with their resume – it’s always nice to help people with their resumes. I was looking at the job description and there was a line that stood out to me – it was this idea that this position – among other things – needed someone…
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Action Figures
This morning, I was picking up some creamer for my coffee and some eggs. Right next to the creamer, they had GI Joe action figures. I found it odd that in the dairy section of the grocery store that the actions figures were right next to the creamer. They had…
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The Third Place and Digital Space
Evidently, Starbucks (The third place) wants to also bring together that and the digital space. You can read their news article on their site here. Not bad right? When their customers say we want a simplified wifi offering – on MyStarbucksIdea.com, they listened. It’s always nice when the company listens…
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So What If the iPhone 4 Doesn’t Work
You don’t see too many people getting rid of theirs. I mean, if it really didn’t work, they’d get rid of it right, but no. That’s not what people are doing. People are complaining about it. People are making it Apple’s problem and how Apple needs to give out new…
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Articulate Latent Needs
That is the line that jumped out to me as I was reading my latest book – Change by design by Tim Brown. I’m only in chapter 2 – converting need into demand. He says that the tools of conventional market research might help with incremental improvements, but that the…
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New Friends
Dunbar’s Number – I wrote about it once here – is some theoretical concept that limits the number of social relationships one can maintain. Okay, I get that. The number is about 150 for those of you that won’t check out the link. There is something cool though about making…
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Being Nice is So Sad
This past weekend, a friend of mine when to get some change to do some laundry. The bank as closed so she had to go to the grocery store to get some change. She got 2 rolls of quarters, and the person at the grocery store thanked her for being…
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Fundamentally Good
Have you ever watched the TED talk by Ben Dunlap? I wrote a post about it about a year ago. Here it is. It’s pretty amazing and inspiring, and this morning I was thinking about a statement that Ben made. He was challenged by Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor…
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What You Don’t Say
Unintended communication and unintended messages say just as much as what you intend to say. I write this knowing full well that it absolutely applies to anything that I’ve ever written on this blog or on Facebook or on Twitter. But how does one learn how to “read” what is…
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