Brief thought exercise: in reality, does your job need to exist?
Are you doing something that really moves the org forward, or are you there to represent how fast the place is growing? Continue Reading
Author: Ted Bauer
This Casey Wilson-Ken Marino “Marry Me” show looks like it’s going to be terrible
I had high hopes for this because it’s from part of the crew that did Happy Endings, which was probably the show aside from HIMYM that had the greatest chance of becoming “the new Friends,” but never truly panned out. Side note: did you… Continue Reading
Small Business Marketing Success Stories: Facebook
Since it’s Small Business Week, I thought it might be interesting/helpful/something to create a series of posts around the different ways that small businesses can use “this new marketing reality” to position themselves better. Whether you’re a fan of Thomas Friedman… Continue Reading
From 1979 to 2012, only four U.S. states — Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and Hawaii — saw income inequality rise by LESS than 10 percent
Cool article in The Atlantic Cities on the growth of American income inequality from 1979 to 2012; essentially, in 1979, there were 11 states (and D.C.) that had rates of inequality (as measured by Gini) that exceeded the rate for the U.S.… Continue Reading
The future of politics (are you listening, Rand Paul?) could be addressable advertising
It seems like people have been discussing this idea of “what Big Data can really do” for years without tremendously tangible day-to-day results (possibly because of this and this). Still, it seems logical that as SmartPhones become the primary gadget… Continue Reading
This is the time of a given year when everyone starts writing about how Americans really do love soccer. As ever, it’s not completely true.
Today’s May 13. The World Cup begins on June 12 — Brazil vs. Croatia — so technically, we have now crossed over into the “less than one month until the World Cup” time period. With that — always in WC… Continue Reading
Katherine Heigl + return to television + Scandal-type premise show + NBC = good, or abject train wreck?
Let’s be honest here about two things: 1. Circa 2005 or so, Katherine Heigl had an astounding career. Grey’s Anatomy was going well, and Knocked Up came out in 2007. While you can argue that the success of the latter was more based on Seth… Continue Reading
Results-Only Work Environment, or ROWE, should be the wave of the future. The problem? Often, employees are treated like children.
There’s a long article on Slate from over the weekend — I think it’s one of their most popular and most shared, all that — about ROWE, or Results-Only Work Environment. Here’s the article. I’ve written about this kind of stuff a ton… Continue Reading