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29 May 2007 ~ Comments Off

The Most Important Words for Innovation

The most recent Guerrilla Marketing email bulletin has Jay and Amy Levinson sharing the most important words in Human Relations:

The six most important words in business: “I admit that I was wrong.”
The five most important words in business: “You did a great job.”
The four most important words in business: “What do you think?”
The three most [...]

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14 April 2007 ~ Comments Off

Your Project Is Not Good Enough

You may be familiar with the Threadless.com website, but do you know anything in regard to the guiding principles that drive its leaders?
Here’s what I knew about the website: Threadless.com is a t-shirt website that accepts designs from the public, and then takes votes on each accepted submission, allowing their community to decide which designs [...]

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20 March 2007 ~ Comments Off

Recipes. Not Rules.

Far too many people (with myself occasionally included) put forth an article or white paper touting the “rules of creativity” — as if there were some secret “Robert’s Rules of Order for the Right-Brained” to which only the experts have access, and mere mortals rejoice at the tiny morsels that are thrown to them like [...]

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11 February 2007 ~ Comments Off

A Fine Find

I know I’m not the last one to the party, because I told at least two of my friends who hadn’t heard about this site either — FineTune.com is a site that allows you to create and share custom playlists of on-demand music.
I think… I think I’m in love…

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23 January 2007 ~ Comments Off

Bragging Rights

When do you have the right to brag a bit about yourself? Peggy Klaus is the author of “Brag! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It” and according to her it might be more often than you think. The real question becomes can you brag about yourself in a graceful manner that [...]

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