Casual Fridays

David Maister points out why he says training is useless.
He sums it up:
So, let’s summarize, I say. You’ve chosen people who don’t want to do the job, who haven’t demonstrated any prior aptitude for the job, and you are rewarding them for things other than doing the job? Thanks, but I’ll pass on the wonderful […]

According to the gamer blog Kotaku, Burger King is developing a campaign to offer BK-branded video games to customers for approximately $4 each. Apparently, the campaign will include three Xbox/Xbox 360 games in different game genres: fighter, racing, and action (similar to Halo).

It is interesting to see Burger King focus so hard on the […]

In 6 quick minutes, this short film reminds me of Orbiting the Giant Hairball in stop-motion animation.
I saw this years ago and recently thought to search for an online version.
It is compelling.

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What is the big idea in what you do? In why you do it? In how you do it?
Ask most business people those three questions and you get three answers:
Money
Money
Money
And those answers happen to be:
Wrong
Wrong
Wrong
Money is the sustainer. It allows you to accomplish the big idea, it isn’t THE big idea. People […]

If you haven’t checked out Squidoo, well it is worth a visit. By searching Seth Godin’s brainchild, I’ve found some great information on HR and ideas for a professional organization to which I belong.
Check out my lens when you have a moment. I haven’t really figured out what I want it to do, […]

How does change occur? From the inside-out or from the outside-in?
Answer: Both. This is true of people and organizations.
Before this change happens, there is friction. Either friction on the inside or friction on the outside.
Friction is really neither a good thing nor a bad thing. Without it, there is no […]

Use.
It’s a word that we use all the time. (sorry, I had no other way to say it)
“What’s the use?”
“It’s no use.”
“I feel used.”
“I’m used to that.”
“I have no use for that.”
Yet I believe we consider ‘use’ very little.
What is THE use? The use of an MP3 player. The use of your car. […]

Each weekday morning, I receive a bubbly, little invite to check out what I may win that day. It could be a business book (or a library of books), or it may be a seminar, CDs, an interview with a famous author, or a bag of crap from the lost and found (they’ve given […]

Kathy Sierra has written a powerful post that has rippled its way through the blogosphere. You should read her post on Death by Risk Aversion.
Kathy makes a great point, but I’m not sure she goes far enough. If you take it a step further, you would not only be willing to risk your […]

Everybody stalls.
…but not everyone knows why.
I helped a VP of sales set up a program for listing available territories and each territory’s potential customers. The idea was that if they saw the untapped potential (of which the sales manager and CEO were vividly aware), the salespeople would be more motivated to pursue these opportunities.
One […]