Putting The Right Light In Your Life
Health & Productivity Did you know? Lighting is an issue often overlooked. The wrong lightning can disrupt your ability to think and work effectively So, choosing the right light and where to position it is a health-related issue. The value of lightning was featured on last night’s airing of Shark Tank. For the first time […]
Identifying A Unique Way To Market A Product
Cow Pies Inc.com Can You Sell Anything? Entrepreneur Annie Haven is trying to build a fast-growing business built on dried cow manure. http://tinyurl.com/2f9oomg Major Takeaways: 1. Yes and no is the answer to the Inc. article’s headline. Sales success depends on skill set, knowledge and personality. Some people can sell effectively…for awhile then may experience […]
Humour in the Business World: Lapses in Critical Thinking
WKRP in Cincinnati…Turkeys Away This late 1970’s TV series featured an episode about a radio station’s Thanksgiving promotion. And it probably ranks as the funniest broadcast airing ever of what can happen when some of the steps used in the critical thinking process are overlooked. But if you think the WKRP episode is exaggerated, check […]
Music Biz Lessond From Alicia Keys
Using Values To Evaluate Business Advice http://youtu.be/wDGFv0D4pEw Starting out, Alicia Keys wanted to be a member of a group, and she disagreed at first with the advice to go solo. But when producers wanted her to focus on the pop market, she fought for an R & B niche and succeeded massively. 2 questions come […]
Preschool Niche Inspired By Cultural Diversity
Entrepreneurship in Denmark International pioneer and entrepreneur After transferring to a new country, an aspiring entrepreneur spent two years researching the marketplace and discovered one way to fill a need confronted by immigrant parents in a new land… Startvaekst.dk http://tinyurl.com/ng5wwh9 Takeaway Immigrants or ex-pats face many challenges in moving to any new country.What are those issues? Analyzing […]
Teen T-Shirt Designer Ran Afoul of the Oakland A’s Baseball Team
Critical thinking means to evaluate…Someone forgot to do that beforehand Check out this story in the EastBay Express, Accused of Stealing Teen’s Design, MLB and Oakland A’s Stop Selling ‘Stoaked’ T-Shirts, Sam Levin: http://tinyurl.com/phlzx5g 16-year old Ryan Frigo’s story is filled with takeaways including: If the person who approved the use of the logo for the Oakland […]
Aptitudes, Abilities & The Theory of Everything
Stephen Hawking & Ripley’s Believe It Or Not One major takeaway after watching, Eddie Redmayne discuss his role as the iconic scientist Stephen Hawking, and learning about some of the people profiled by Robert Ripley’s Believe It or Not is that Hawking and many others illustrate that innate ability or aptitudes are not erased because […]
American Made Furniture Maker & Overseas Competition
Factory Man Most people know little about the furniture business and Vaughn Basset is not a “small business” owner but his story is an awesome example of David vs. Goliath in the entrepreneurial arena. An instructive and inspirational example of problem solving for aspiring entrepreneurs in any industry grappling with the issue of stiff competition. […]
Why Some Teachers Become Entrepreneurs
2 Clues Journalist Dana Goldstein, author of The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession, appeared in a 15-minute interview this weekend on CNN. The brief segment included mention of major historical and current day socio-political issues that teachers confront regularly… And take a look at the humorous blog post “Top 10 Teachers […]
How Humor & Creativity Add Spark to A Dry Topic
Victor Borge Eats, Shoots & Leaves http://youtu.be/lF4qii8S3gw Few people would argue that English grammar is not exactly the most riveting subject on the planet. But here are two instances in which different approaches to the creative process produced massive attention-getting classics in the book and entertainment fields. From Victor Borge’s memorable laugh out loud approach to […]