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Thursday, January 04, 2007

When Acquisitions Fail

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I've been reading Leonard Fuld 's The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence , which is very good reading - almost like a mini-...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Making Things

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I spent one summer working in a factory - H.H. Brown Shoe in Worcester Massachusetts , where I did finishing work on combat-boots - so I...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Yankee (Magazine) Go Home

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I was going to start out by saying that I may be the only person under the age of 70 who subscribes to Yankee Magazine , but that's pate...
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Monday, January 01, 2007

Ten Things I Believe About Business (After Bob Sutton)

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When I was in business school (which was quite a while back now: last June I attended my 25th reunion at Sloan/MIT), I tended to avoid cours...
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Monday, December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas to All...

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....and to all a good night. Pink Slip will be on vacation for a few days, but will return to ring in the new year with a renewed eye to th...
Sunday, December 24, 2006

All I Want for Christmas

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I've blessedly gotten to that point in my life where there aren't a hell of a lot of things that I really want, or really need all t...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Partridge in a Pear Tree Index

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This has been out for a month now, but the topic is timely: the annual Twelve-Days-of-Christmas index. It's the brainchild of PNC , whic...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

My Little Pony (on Steroids)

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 There was a terrific article by Neil Swidey in the Boston Sunday Globe on Hasbro's development and introduction of a new animatronic p...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

"I'll Have a Blue-hoo-hoo-hoo Christmas..."

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I'll admit right upfront: I have purchased dyed carnations. I had a reasonable excuse. I couldn't find shamrocks. It was for St. Pat...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Spitting Distance

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I've seen some pretty lousy work behavior over the years - tantrums, rages, snottiness, threats, cruelties petty and large - but by and ...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

Needle in a Haystack

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There's been a little buzz the last few weeks about systems that help drivers find a place to park.For anyone who's been met with th...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Listening Up: Red Sox Response on the Virtual Waiting Room

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Even though it's the address on my blog profile, I don't always remember to check my g-mail account. Today, I looked in and what to ...
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Tag, You're It.

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.Well, I guess that 3 months into my life as a blogger, I've really become on now that Mary Schmidt - who in the weird and wacky way th...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Silly String - Practice, not Theory

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If I'd given a nano-second of thought to Silly String at all, I would have lumped it in with all those other useless products that are c...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Fun in the Office!

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Today's  post by Lewis Green over on Marketing Profs is an open letter to some lunkhead who's suing America West for firing him for...
Monday, December 11, 2006

The Red Sox Virtual Waiting Room

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On Saturday, Red Sox tickets for some April-May games, and a few packages, became available on-line. As I did last year, I logged on and too...
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Friday, December 08, 2006

All Worked Up

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The other day, I blogged on Bob Sutton 's forthcoming The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Why I'm Glad Manny Doesn't Report to Me

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One of the great pleasures of being a Red Sox fan is that there's really no off-season. There are just months when there are games playe...

Real Fake

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I live in the same block as the bar/restaurant that inspired the TV series Cheers . I rarely go there, but the other evening we had an out-o...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Charlie on the MTA

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Boston's rapid transportation system (a.k.a., "the T") is replacing its token system with smart cards. They've had swipe-c...
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