Month: May 2007
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How To Create Great Boards
[This was an essay on the blog, now turned into a post] The board is responsible for making sure that it fairly represents the shareholders interests in seeing the company move forward. Most of the articles talk about their being good governance techniques such as attendance, reviewing the material before the meeting, etc., that are…
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Dominating the Message
With my wife studying Spanish, I decided to look into some Spanish software so I could learn some too. Rosetta Stone was the first one I started with and then started reading some reviews. From there it lead me to another spanish program called “Learning Spanish Like Crazy” which was recommended. Then I did a…
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Threshhold of Relevance & Group Action
It’s interesting that people essentially don’t take notice of certain things until someone else mentions it to them. This ties into the example that shows up in both Blink and Influence about the woman who was stabbed three different times over some time with over 30 witnesses not one of whom called the police until…
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Blockbuster Security
Recently, when checking out a movie, I saw a very interesting security check. Blockbuster almost always asks for your current address to make sure you are still living at the same place. A woman was checking out a movie and she was doing so on her husbands card. The cashier said, “John?” and she said,…