Category: Attention
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Created to Perceive Change
Over the years, in a number of locations, there is a common theme to the way our senses were created, namely, that they sense change. Here are some examples: Touch – Classic experiment, take one hand put it in a bucket of cold water, another in a bucket of hot water and let them…
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The Challenges of Growing Big
How much money did you make for your business last year? If you are an entrepreneur in a small business (or in sales), the number probably pops in your head right away, or at least a method to get there. If you work in a large organization, you probably don’t know and don’t even know how you could know.…
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The Unsung Hero
Heroes are people that come to the rescue in the face of seemingly unavoidable disaster. The customer was going to kill the account, but the hero works all day and night to meed the deadline no one thought could be met. There is much celebration, the hero rides on the shoulders of his colleagues But…
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Deactionary Dreamers
Over the last several years, I have met several people who suffer from what I call Deactionary Dreamers. These people suffer from an illusion that execution has no impact on the outcome, and instead is a given. In a normal scenario (when things go well), you have three basic steps: Good Idea / Opportunity Identified A good…
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Are you buying that advertising?
I was reading an interesting blog entry on what youth are willing to pay for. One of the lines that I found odd was this: “They seldom intentionally click on any kind of advertising, and they never buy anything because of the advertising.” Is this really insightful? How many of us would say that we…
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The Benefits of Dwelling
Most ideas can be rather simply put. Cliff notes have been truncating books for ages. Book reviews often summarize a book sufficiently that you can have an intelligent sounding conversation about the ideas presented with your colleagues. Unfortunately, ideas represented in simple forms rarely translate into change: Change of action, change of understanding, change of perception.…
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The Irrepressible Need To Correct
We all do it. Your friend says, “Can you believe that we haven’t seen Bob in 4 weeks?” Contemplating this, your brain calculates that really it’s only been 3 weeks and 5 days, so rather than simply agreeing with the over all point your friend was making –“Hey, it’s been a long time” — you…