I wish I could take credit for this title, but I can’t. I borrowed it from a presentation I attended last week by Innovation expert, Susan Cullen, President of Quantum Learning Solutions. She had some terrific things to say about breathing new life into your business (“Innovation is oxygen”), and some surprising things to boot. Like Rule #1: Never ask your customers what you should do.
Continue reading post…Note to self: Find someone who can introduce you to the marketing chief at the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and/or start charging more for your logo designs. Everything I read or hear about the upcoming Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, has a dollar sign attached to it. The cost of hosting the Games and local infrastructure projects are coming in at some $50 billion and I just learned that the London 2012 Olympic logo (unveiled in 2007), cost $800,000 to create. In 2007! Clearly I am not charging enough for my work.
Continue reading post…My father always did his Christmas shopping on December 24th. But he shopped at only one store: Sears. Just the thought of it struck fear and loathing in the heart of my mother who prepared herself for kitchen gadgets and shall we say “questionable” gold jewelry. But as a kid I loved Sears, so it saddens me to see this great American brand closing its flagship store in downtown Chicago, one of hundreds of Sears’ stores that have been shuttered in only the past few years. I feel a death coming on.
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