Thursday, July 30, 2009

Idea

"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."
- Rex Harrison

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Effective

Sometimes there are pearls of wisdom inside all of this business spam that I get.

“No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.”
— Peter Drucker

Monday, July 27, 2009

How to find generals

"The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. "

- Thomas Jefferson

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Oh, that'll fix it

Best headline of the day, too.

Single Regulator To Solve Systemic Risk (Dealbreaker)

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Hunting

Microsoft's Laptop Hunter ads



I think this is a really good ad, even though I'm a Mac guy myself. Probably the first halfway effective Microsoft ad I've ever seen.

And Apple is upset enough about the ad that their lawyers have contacted Microsoft about it.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

No, really

I liked this anecdote reported on Yahoo Finance. #8 in a list of 10:

http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107261/dumbest-moments-in-business-2009-midyear-edition.html;_ylt=Aubt8tBgOlOVXdJTsAktdxK7YWsA?mod=career-leadership

8. U.S. Debt is 'Safe.' Seriously. Stop Laughing

Following a speech at Peking University on his first trip to China as Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner was asked to share his thoughts about the safety of Chinese investments in the United States. They are "VERY safe," he quickly asserted.

At which point the audience burst out laughing. Apparently, the audience was amused not only by the answer's substance, but by the flat "don't worry your little young heads about it" certainty with which Geithner insisted that China's U.S. debt holdings were A-OK. Because as even a group of Chinese college kids understood, that's just not as clear as the Treasury Secretary insisted it was.

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Who watches the Watchmen?

The smiley face on Mars:

http://jennifersaylor.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/face-on-mars-revealed/