• Indeed! Get yer motor runnin'... RT @luckyfish: motorcycle weather 19 hours ago
  • Claiming that. RT @rumon: To my friends having crap days (you know who you are), a temporary salve: Rufus Wainright's "Instant Pleasure". 1 day ago
  • Terrible! RT @smith: Very grizzled for my trip to Paris - power went out last night and wasn't back on when I woke. Lantern lit shower. 1 day ago
  • What?! (re The Godfather) RT @tristen__ashley: @jamehealy Seriously? Possibly the worst trilogy movie in history. 2 days ago
  • Watching The Godfather III. "Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in." Brilliant. 2 days ago

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Making Good

I’m really impressed with the new web site for MakeGood (www.MakeGood.com).

We know that companies all over the world are doing great things, but only a few are effectively telling their story.

MakeGood acts as the bridge between the customers and businesses, enabling companies to display the positive things they are doing while publicly stating their commitment to social responsibility. …

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Back to Business, the Old Fashioned Way

Regardless of when and how the current economic “contraction” reverses itself, I think we can agree that the face of business as we know it is going to change… at least I’m hoping it does.

I remember in the late 90’s, when I was an analyst for a venture capital firm, the number of “pimply-faced” self-styled entrepreneurs that would come in …

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Visa Card Upgrade Scheme Fraudulent?

I was sent a new Visa “Infinite” card this past August (unsolicited) from Visa (… or is it RBC?).  I told the them (the Royal Bank) that I didn’t want/need the new card (with its new fees) and subsequently shredded the card and the “terms” that it came with as it didn’t apply to me and contained personal information.  …

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The Art of Complex Problem Solving

Someone passed this on to me the other day … I wish I remember who.

www.Idiagram.com

I’ve spent some time on this site, and have to hand it to the author Marshall Clemens, I’m impressed.

Not only does his style work for me, but the challenge of representing complex systems, problems or solutions into such easily understood illustrations or models I’m convinced …

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Myopic performance measurement…

How many times have we seen this before?  No names of course.

The irony of this cartoon is that the "employee" may in fact be correct.  Granted that a chart with this kind of dramatic drop-off is not typically illustrative of positive performance, we all too often pay these one-dimensional measurements too much attention.

Like the analogy of the airline pilot sitting …

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