September 2009

Organization strategy and development – party like it’s 1969

How do organizations survive? The only way an organization survives is to grow. Like people, an organization grows and develops by developing new skills, knowledge, and abilities. An organization’s strategy is nothing without an organization’s development. Most professionals have an image of what marketing, sales, accounting, or human resource professionals do, but fewer are naturally [...]

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Viral marketing and Twitter gone right – the comment & the blog

On my last blog I received a comment I thought deserved a longer response than should be posted within the comment section. So, I decided to pick up the comment and carry it onto a new post. The blog comment david_becker: I disagree with this article as this is a “contest” and not a viral [...]

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Viral marketing and Twitter gone wrong – help Adecco recognize Adecco and win $100

Viral marketing happens when a story or idea takes off and spreads. The story is spread, like a virus, from one person to another through Twitter, the blog world, email, and YouTube – to name a few. In the online community being the object of the viral campaign can bring instant fame, for free, but [...]

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What Businesses Can Learn About Innovation … a comment about the numbers

I read Stephen Shapiro’s excellent blog on innovation and wanted to pull over one of his blogs and my comments with a chance to expand them here. This post brings together 2 topics that are powerful when coupled, but too often stand apart and at odds:  numbers and stories. Innumeracy, numerical illiteracy, stands in the [...]

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