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Hiring Milkshakes (and other secrets to product development)

  • Corporate, Pass-Along

    Stop Working and Go Home

    Scott Anthony of Innosight published an excellent post on the Harvard Business Review blog. A frequent business traveler, Anthony…

    October 4, 2010
  • Braille

    You’re Not Going to Outsmart the Diamond Business

    That’s what Paul Weber of Long’s Jewelers told me as I was shopping for an engagement ring several months…

    September 30, 2010
  • Pass-Along

    Where Good Ideas Come From

    How do epiphanies happen? Where do the best ideas start? Is there a programmatic way to generate new ideas?…

    September 28, 2010
  • Books

    Predictably Irrational

    In the tradition of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, Freakonomics, Superfreakonomics, Made to Stick, and…

    September 26, 2010
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    Corporate, Pass-Along

    Hiring Milkshakes (and other secrets to product development)

    “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!” – Theodore Levitt, Professor of Marketing,…

    September 16, 2010
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    What Tom Sawyer Knew and Google Is Learning

    Doing work isn’t fun. Getting other people to do work for you is. You may recall from your grade…

    August 23, 2010
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