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Archive for November, 2007
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Nostradamus
- Great comment, love the design of the site too. Read more >
- Fusion is the key. You know I bought a book -- now understand why. A gift? for my daughters school paper/ To read on a plane? each takes you to a different motivation. Read more >
- Motivations and understandings are ideal insights. Sadly these "why" insights are like psychophysics - inside the head of the consumer. Marketing research tries to tell us what those insights are by asking the consumer (and then projecting the responses into the future). Modelling from customer or prospect data tries to relate behaviour with future actions, and avoids pretending it is ...Read more >
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Painting
All Relationships Are Local. You’ve heard this before…I hope!
We live in a schizophrenic world. On one hand we talk about how globalization has made our planet a small village—making us all more alike than different. On the other hand, the news is full of examples, many violent and sad, of just how different we really are and how important understanding those differences can be.
- David, I certainly agree with your description. This fact, that relationships are indeed local, has made the task of mastering relationship building more challenging, some might say daunting, Globalization has exposed each of us to each other, and thereby created fertile ground for new relationships. However, since relationships are local, it has made the demands (in terms of time and effort) ...
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Let there be light
I was just helping my daughter with a college sociology paper. It brought back memories—shudder…The Professor gave them a set of questions difficult questions requiring citation, proof points and analysis of impact yet gave them no more than a page for each question to answer.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/fashion/11guru.html?ex=1195794000&en=9b22cfb9f7cb6238&ei=5070&emc=eta1
- I MEANT to type: Maybe the professOR (who, after all controls the agenda) wanted brief writing because that forces the students to pull out the important parts. Ie, after simplicity and some happy engagement, things get more interesting. The typo raised the issue of professions (and professionals) controlling the agendas. In a lot of orgs that doesn't seem to ...
- In the beginning of a client relationship, or the first wave sales pitch, simplicity is gold. One experienced communications coach around here talks about "crimes of passion" - meaning not knowing what to omit and not being able to omit. This gets you off message and clients get distracted, bored and confused. However, later in the relationship with the client, ...
