Who’s Using Coupons?
Posted by Jim | September 5, 2009 | Comments Off
With more people struggling to make ends meet these days, it’s not surprising that coupon use was up 23% in the first half of 2009. More surprising are the results of a recent study by The Nielsen Company including:
Households earning more than $70,000/year are more likely to be heavy coupon users than U.S. households in [...]
What Motivates Employees?
Posted by Jim | August 25, 2009 | Comments Off
Great presentation by Dan Pink in July 2009 on what really motivates employees:
Five Ways To Be Happier At Work
Posted by Jim | August 24, 2009 | Comments Off
Given the length of (and the number of layoffs during) the current recession, employee morale has taken quite a hit. In many companies, those workers fortunate enough to still have jobs are seeing larger workloads and smaller paychecks. If this sounds familiar, here are five things you can do at work this week to feel [...]
Go Ask Alice.com
Posted by Jim | August 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Long the domain of book and music retailers, online shopping hasn’t really caught on with the toilet paper and laundry detergent crowd. Alice.com, a new site that lets the manufacturers of many popular consumer packaged goods sell directly to customers, hopes to change that.
Manufacturers have been feeling the profit-pinch lately, both from recession-weary consumers and [...]
Summer Reading List
Posted by Jim | August 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Now that August is here, I should really start working on the stack of books that I wanted to read this summer:
Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Stewart Friedman, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life
Thomas Friedman, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
Laurence Gonzales, Deep [...]
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