Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
More Corporate Bingo
"Lean, Mean, Kind of a Machine"
"Welcome yourselves"
"Don't let her in the vault"
"The juice may not be worth the squeeze"
"If I can cry wolf loud enough, maybe we can get an echo back"
"A present under the tree, only to give an empty box"
"Welcome yourselves"
"Don't let her in the vault"
"The juice may not be worth the squeeze"
"If I can cry wolf loud enough, maybe we can get an echo back"
"A present under the tree, only to give an empty box"
Monday, January 12, 2009
Corporate Bingo that Doesn't Work
These would never make http://www.corporatebingo.org/, because they flat don't work:
"Sketch View" (= 10,000 ft. view)
"If it makes sense, it will make dollars"
"Triangulate" (for Implement)
"Don't throw November out with the bath water!"
"No One of us is as smart as All of us"
"Classes begin ______. Kinda creates a subliminal sense of urgency"
"Orchestra, horn section, string section...all going to the same tempo"
"Adding additional legs to the stool, so we will never have to depend on only TV & Internet"
"There is gold in them there hills, and we need to go pan for it"
"I see a big block of cheese, and if you move the cheese are you moving & scurrying or hemming & hawing?"
"Who moved the cheese?"
"We have some opportunity here, but we can't let the grass grow between or toes"
"Sketch View" (= 10,000 ft. view)
"If it makes sense, it will make dollars"
"Triangulate" (for Implement)
"Don't throw November out with the bath water!"
"No One of us is as smart as All of us"
"Classes begin ______. Kinda creates a subliminal sense of urgency"
"Orchestra, horn section, string section...all going to the same tempo"
"Adding additional legs to the stool, so we will never have to depend on only TV & Internet"
"There is gold in them there hills, and we need to go pan for it"
"I see a big block of cheese, and if you move the cheese are you moving & scurrying or hemming & hawing?"
"Who moved the cheese?"
"We have some opportunity here, but we can't let the grass grow between or toes"
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Amish are using wooden cell phones
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/business/smallbusiness/08sbiz.html?em
The Amish, the religious sect that has determinedly kept the modern world at bay, have been leaving a quiet life of farming for jobs in small businesses — all the while trying to balance their own values with the culture of the marketplace.
The businesses, which favor such Amish skills as furniture-making, quilting, construction work and cooking, have been remarkably successful. Despite a lack of even a high school education (the Amish leave school after the eighth grade), hundreds of Amish entrepreneurs have built profitable businesses based on the Amish values of high quality, integrity and hard work.
The Amish, the religious sect that has determinedly kept the modern world at bay, have been leaving a quiet life of farming for jobs in small businesses — all the while trying to balance their own values with the culture of the marketplace.
The businesses, which favor such Amish skills as furniture-making, quilting, construction work and cooking, have been remarkably successful. Despite a lack of even a high school education (the Amish leave school after the eighth grade), hundreds of Amish entrepreneurs have built profitable businesses based on the Amish values of high quality, integrity and hard work.
Friday, January 2, 2009
Vegetable Soup
"Making a batch of vegetable soup,
it's not right for the carrot to say
I taste better than the peas, or the pea to say
I taste better than the cabbage.
It takes all the vegetables to make a good soup!"
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