Archive for the 'Change, Creativity & Brainstorming' Category

Facebook for Business

Monday, April 5th, 2010

Adding a page for “Fans” of your business

Kevin (Project manager for our Site Brand Builder web site business) and I did a web site presentation yesterday at PTAC (Procurement Technical Assistance Center – doing business with the government). We asked our audience of 50 or so “How many of you have a personal Facebook [...]

Future Generations

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

What Would You Say?

A very creative artist named Heather Layton is working on a project at Cornell University as an artist-in-residence. It is titled “Letters to a Future Generation”. Here is her blog if you would like to know more about it.  www.pocketsfortheteeth.blogspot.com.  I added to her collection of 500 letters and this is what [...]

Doodles

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Doodling as an asset.
Last week I read  that Doodling during a meeting helps to increase retention up to 30%.  The article I read said that the study was done by Jackie Andrade, who is a psychology professor at the University of Plymouth in England. The study appears online in Applied Cognitive Psychology.
Doodling, they say in [...]

Personal Energy

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Your energy and how it affects others
At a presentation on personal energy and how it affects others, a couple of weeks ago, I did an exercise that had some interesting results. It was for a group of about 70 health care professionals.
Here is how the exercise went.
I asked on a scale of 1 to 10,  [...]

The Mailbox Story

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Big, Bright & Beautiful
Our Yellow Mailbox Story

This one is kind of fun and also very practical.
Our office is on a busy road and, with rapidly moving traffic, hard to see for first time visitors . In the evening the problem grows with darkness making difficult to even find the driveway while moving.
Solution -
We installed [...]

Lessons Learned

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

To be able to take your business to the next level you need to consistently be assessing your strategic actions and tactical activities. If you have read any articles on successful people they all talk about not making the same mistake twice. We will all make decisions that we had good intentions with but they [...]