Waste No Part Of The Animal

Image credit: equality Many moons ago, when I thought horror novels were fun, a fiendish book left me with mental images I'd rather forget, and a line that I'd rather not: "We waste no part of the animal." Bringing that up in a business context may seem a little off, but "waste ...

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May 8, 2008

What Could You Create In A Weekend?

Sprint qualifier—Image credit: Dave Haygarth Yesterday's zesty comments on brainstorming have encouraged me to continue reminiscing about my design school days. Anything I still remember after 15-20 years is worth massaging into something we can all use now. What stands out for me today is the Virginia Society's weekend charette. As I ...

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May 7, 2008

What’s 10% Of Nothing?

252 of 2,601 squares---Image credit: striatic The Backstory Back in 1987---before CDs, iPods, the Internet, and eBay---I was a first year student in Virginia Tech's architecture program. The program's first phase was the Foundation, where they stret-t-t-t-t-tched our mind with design possibilities. And my first professor, Gene Egger, was max fabulous at ...

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May 6, 2008

No Matter How Far You’ve Gone…

Image credit: cc Crystl (not me!) "No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." ~Turkish Proverb It's still surprising when Life tosses me an opportunity for a rethink (but at least I've stopped ducking or dropping them, eh?). Now, I see them coming out of the corner ...

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May 2, 2008

Do You Have What it Takes to Drive Growth?

Today’s post was submitted by Kelly from MaximumCustomerExperience, who I call the Queen of Customer Consciousness. Absorb and savor her perspective on the topic of Vision: EnVisioning the Future for Your Small Business (Besides perhaps comics...) How many closed-minded and pessimistic success stories are there? I had a conversation not long ago with ...

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April 4, 2008

Do You Have Secret Business Syndrome?

In her comments on managing customer expectations, Kelly from Maximum Customer Experience noted a trend in business cards: omitting your name. She said: I get handed a lot of cards that have a business name but no human’s name...It is such a doh! But I still see LOTS of them. Maybe ...

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March 24, 2008