When is the last time you’ve had a real legitimate, WOW moment? Well, I had one today. What happened was this: last night in bed I was reading my Twitter feed (as I often do) and came across an article tweeted by HBR and written by Grant McCracken, entitled, “Creating Combustible Marketing“. I enjoyed the…
Category Archives: Org Behaviour
…you know how the saying goes. When you’re a hammer everything looks like a nail. Recently, our faculty was extended an invitation from one of the publishing companies we work with to attend a professional development workshop entitled, “Always Innovating”. This being my first PD workshop in quite some time, I was eager to attend…
We hear a lot about workplace bullying and its impact on turnover, morale, culture, etc. Here is a study recently conducted at UBC regarding bullying and nurses in the medical environment. An interesting examination of organizational behaviour in a workplace we often overlook in this field of study: healthcare.
Leave it to Scott, Mr. “UnMarketing”, to keep it real and deliver this critical message to the “old school business folks” who (still) spend hours upon hours questioning the ROI of social media. In his latest blog post, Scott forces us all to examine the ROI of non-social media efforts that are supposed to bring business value.…
Jason Fried is the co-founder of 37 Signals. If you don’t know what this is, start by doing a quick Internet search, then walk, no run, to your local bookstore and pick up “Re-Work”. You can devour this book in one sitting: expect to develop a small kink in your neck from nodding (in the…
Jason Fried is the co-founder of 37 Signals. If you don’t know what this is, start by doing a quick Internet search, then walk, no run, to your local bookstore and pick up “Re-Work”. You can devour this book in one sitting: expect to develop a small kink in your neck from nodding (in the…
I didn’t say it, he did. Evan Soloman said it, and you know what? It makes perfect sense. Specifically, he said: “good design (of technology) respects the stupidity of users”. It’s brilliant, isn’t it? Presenting at Get Contagious this year, Evan reminded us that it’s the simplicity of complicated matter (cars, refrigerators) that makes us…
