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As you chase revenue, also chase honesty; it will boost sales

Honesty In The Sales Process

For better or worse, people at most organizations spend a lot of time chasing more revenue, or, at the very least, more growth. That’s the way of the world these days; Amazon and Pandora, for example, don’t really make profit (per se),… Continue Reading

Only 32 percent of children in Mississippi are in two-parent households

States with Most and Least Two-Parent Families

Check out the above. It’s a map of two-parent households around the USA, as organized by percentage of states. If you want a better version, click here. If you’re into lists of states and percentages, well, here you go: This is a… Continue Reading

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Marketing 101: Decisions come from your memories

Marketing and Brain and Memories

This is what always surprises me about marketing, right? At essence, marketing is a support function for sales. You create a message, or a story, or a campaign, or however you want to define it. That message is ultimately supposed to help… Continue Reading

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Cops have killed 385 people so far in 2015, but look deeper at the numbers

Cop Shootings White vs. Black

385 people through five months is basically two people per day getting killed by a police officer somewhere in America, which is twice the rate of the past decade. That’s not good. Before you think it’s all “white cop vs. black, unarmed offender”… Continue Reading

Three ways to make your employees happier

Happy, Jumping Employees

Let’s say you took a reputable university — i.e. someplace like Harvard! — and then you went back a few decades in time and surveyed one of their graduating classes, say … 1980. Now, the results are potentially biased, because the… Continue Reading

Managers don’t seem so big on self-improvement

Managers Avoid Self-Development

Let’s start by taking a look at this graph; I got it from here: This is from Joseph Folkman, who’s a pretty big deal in the whole “leadership development” space. It’s based on 360 assessments with 50,000 leaders; they were asked… Continue Reading

People who live in cities often think they live in the burbs

People Think They Live In The Suburbs But They Live In Cities

Kinda interesting, and via here: Here’s the methodology here: this guy at Trulia (their “chief economist!”) asked 2,000+ adults if they thought they lived in an urban hood, a rural hood, or a suburban hood. He then organized the results.… Continue Reading

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Are we becoming less religious?

Are we now less religious?

First, look at this chart (it’s from here): In general, then, richer nations — UK, Germany, Japan, Australia — tend to be less religious, but the U.S. actually seems to be far more religious than other nations among its wealth-generating peers.