Look up the word “accountability” in a Thesaurus—very instructive. I often look up words that interest me to see what thought threads exist in their various meanings. Finding a word’s opposite meaning is also amazingly instructive. It often gives you a completely different take on how to use the word in question and sheds light on the power inherent in its meaning.
Archive for September, 2006
Monday, September 25th, 2006
Word Threads
- Just wondering if eBay permits you to sell concert tickets on-line? Do you know if you'll find any restrictions based on what country you're in?
My parents have just referred to as me and asked if i could "get rid" of their two tickets to a concert as they wont have the ability to make it due to an ...Read more >
- a thought from our very accountable trainee, emel yazici (from turkiye/wurzburg university) and an addition: "why should accountability always be only connected to the negative of things - think positive being accountable may just happen to also mean "success, happiness,... "
-> have fun looking up those words in the dics
Accountability - an interesting topic. I don’t know, if I ...Read more >
Monday, September 18th, 2006
No Choice
Teamwork. Here we go again…….more Rah Rah – right????
WRONG!
Have you ever heard the expression “they eat their own?” It is one of those sayings that has been borrowed from the world of Nature. It usually describes some member of the animal or insect family who either eat their children or eat each other. When used for Human analogy, it is not a compliment. And, when used to describe a company….stay away!
Monday, September 11th, 2006
Blink
What gives our decisions power and credibility?
Is it primarily deliberation and analysis? If so, our ability to access reams of data is surely a boon. Yet, to me, it doesn’t look like anyone, anywhere (being a little political here…) is making much better judgments than they did years ago—before we had access to digital data. Maybe…..our conversion rates using all that data are not much higher than they were when we were strictly analog and using the printed data cards Lester often talks about.
