The edifice complex
19 Nov 2008 10:50am GMT Why do banks spend so much money on marble lobbies, high ceilings and yes, $400 million to name a baseball stadium? Why do marketers buy TV ads that don't increase sales in the short run? Why have a receptionist and...
Don't get fooled again...
18 Nov 2008 11:14pm GMT [This post is cynical. You've been warned.] If you think that's a friend of yours on twitter, don't be so sure. If you wonder why your boss sent such an insane email to you, don't be so sure. If you...
Blah, blah, blah, blah...
18 Nov 2008 10:38am GMT You hear yourself saying: "First, let me apologize for the lighting. We tried very hard to make the screen brighter, but we failed. Before I start, I want to thank seventeen people by name... Now, on this third slide, we...
We feel your pain
17 Nov 2008 6:52pm GMT That's the current motto of the folks over at Motrin. There's been a ton of buzz the last two days about a botched ad campaign they ran, but this post isn't really about that. It's about being a human being...
Hungry
17 Nov 2008 10:15am GMT I had lunch (a big lunch) with a college student last week. An hour later, she got up and announced she was going to get a snack. Apparently, she was hungry. By any traditional definition of the word, she wasn’t...