Archive for 2011

Let’s say Facebook opens a bank. Facebook’s bank (Facebank?) works just like any other bank. Would you want a Facebook bank account? Look at it this way – a Facebook bank would be an immediate financial success from day one. It would also no doubt be the biggest customer focused bank in the entire world.…

Givers are generally loyal to the person they give to. “You need a little more? No problem!” Takers are loyal to only those who are fulfilling their needs right now! “You cannot or will not help me? You’re dead to me! Next!”

An idea for an app. People come up with new resolutions at the end of every year, plans made, goals laid, dreams dreamt. And then an entire year rolls by and we wonder what happened to all those hopes. At the start of each year, the app lets you set goals of what you want…

There is a direct correlation between your credit score and your level of swag.

Why do you root for that sports team? Because they’re from your home town? Because they represent the college you went to? Because they’re the best in region? The best in the world? A lot of us blindly root for a sports team, an actor, a politician, a company, a new story, because of an…

Small business is where you work on your current client whilst looking for your next client. Entrepreneurial is where there is no client. Customers perhaps, but not clients. Are you an entrepreneur? Or a small business? Decide which, and embrace it. But the rules are different for each and they don’t mix.

“That’s brave of you” said the hipster indicating my unprotected iPhone sat on the edge of the table in the coffee shop. “Not really,” I smiled, “I’m neither poor nor clumsy.”

Never take a job that requires you to set an alarm to wake you up. Easier said than done, but I’m sure you’ll figure out how to do it.

How much easier life would be if we knew what our regrets were going to be.

The only thing more impressive than my accomplishments is the length of my LinkedIn profile.

Most of what we pay attention to, or rather, most of what we pay attention to because it is designed to distract us, is noise. If you want to improve, if you want to be better tomorrow than you are today, you need to find the signal that will pull you forward. The greatest gift…

Car washes, hair cuts and CocaCola are good economic indicators. A regular car wash means you have a secure job that pays reasonably well. A hair cut means you have a chance at getting a job. The price of a CocaCola tells you both the cost of living and how quickly inflation is rising.

How fast do you need the news? How much news do you need? How does that particular piece of news not related to your industry affect your work today? If it doesn’t, is it news? Or merely noise?

I don’t swear because I am inarticulate, I swear because it pisses you off.

Nobody ever opened up a neatly wrapped present that has been thoughtfully tucked under the Christmas tree and exclaimed how excited they are by the fact you printed out a page of bullet points on a particular idea. A presentation is a gift. It is a gift to you, the presenter, to present your ideas…

It’s not the colour of your skin that is the problem, it’s how thick it is.

I’ll bet there weren’t all that many radical feminists on the Titanic.

If you could cut the response time that it takes to handle a customer’s call by 10%. Would you do it? What would that be worth to you? What sacrifices to efficiency would you have to make to achieve that? What about 20%? 30%? 50%? At what point does the diminishing return you’re seeing, going…