I picked up The 100 Best Business Books of All Time with a gift card I had for Borders. It delivers what it promises: executive summaries and why-buys for top business, leadership, sales, and management books. The information is presented in a choose-your-own adventure sort of way, where you can jump to different book summaries [...]
A shoe factory sends two marketing scouts to a region of Africa to study the prospects for expanding business.
One reports back, “Situation hopeless. No one wears shoes.”
The other writes, “Glorious business opportunity! They have no shoes.”
The day all my hotel rewards points from my road-warrior days at Ford would be gone. The loyalty points were one perk that made all the travel a little easier to swallow. During certain stretches, I was on the road 3-4 nights a week, 3-4 weeks a month. I had Gold status with Marriott Rewards, [...]
For the second year in a row, we took a weekend trip to the desert for some baseball and to meet up with friends.
On Friday, we watched future big-leaguer Chris Gimenez score what turned out to be the game winning run against the A’s. Our seats were in the shade, yet I still managed to [...]
The Bank of Obama lets you send a stimulus check to your friends and family in need of a bailout. Why let big banks and car companies have all the fun?
I thought this was a cool video. A little longer than it needs to be, but stick around to the end because that’s the best part.
The Mariners released their new TV commercials today, with the tagline “A new day, a new way.” Hopefully that means fewer than 100 losses. You can check out the commercials here, but they’re not really doing it for me. I mean, they definitely can’t compare to these classics.
The Ichiro Epidemic
Buhner’s Time to Shine
Jamie’s Radar Gun
Griffey’s [...]
YouNoodle.com is a something of a social networking platform for entrepreneurs, and they’ve developed an algorithm that predicts what a startup company will be worth 3 years down the road. Curious how a computer program could estimate the value of something so volatile and with so many factors, I gave it a shot.
First, YouNoodle asked [...]
