- Christian Louboutin Pink Madame Claude
- Burberry Black Check Low Top Trainers
- Louis Vuitton Monogram Vernis White Sunset Boulevard
- Bally White Goffered Handbag
- Marc Jacobs Orange Plastic Summer Tote
- Alexander Wang Luggage Rocco Mini Duffle
- Louis Vuitton Monogram Miroir Golden Alma
- Christian Louboutin Green Bianca Pumps
- Hermes Red Snakeskin Wallet
- Louis Vuitton Mahina Leather Beige XXL
- Alexander McQueen Black Faithful Booties
- Gucci Black Embossed Messendger Bag
- Louis Vuitton Monogram Vernis Purple Brentwood
- Fendi Brown Zucca Spy Bag
- Gucci White Positano Tote
- Fendi Black Selleria Shoulder Bag
- Jimmy Choo Patent Red Zulu Clutch
- Louis Vuitton White Kanye West Shoes
- Louis Vuitton Monogram Denim Handbag
- Burberry Patent Red Nova Clutch
- Alexander McQueen Red Faithful Peep Toe Pumps
- Fendi Grey Snake Peekaboo Handbag
- Balenciaga Red Covered Giant Money
- Louis Vuitton Mahina Leather Deep Coffee Lunar GM
- Louis Vuitton Red Kanye West Shoes
- Louis Vuitton Perforated Orange Speedy 30
- Christian Dior Patent Black Tote
- Christian Louboutin Black Yoyospina Pumps
- Hermes Apricot Ostrich Wallet
- Herve Leger Purple and Silver Sleevless Bandage Dress
- Louis Vuitton Patent Blue Sandals
- Loewe Yellow Handbag
- Chanel Patent Orange Ballerina Flats
- Hermes Black Wallet
- Jimmy Choo Pink Snake Lohla Bag
- Fendi Pink Woven Zucca Spy Bag
- Gucci Deep Coffee Messenger Bag
- Louis Vuitton Damier Ebene Canvas Naviglio
- Burberry Brown Check Low Top Trainers
- Christian Louboutin Nude Hyper Prive Slingbacks
- Armani Exchange Black Leather Sneakers
- Louis Vuitton Damier Ebene Canvas Berkeley
- Cartier White Shopping Handbag
- Jimmy Choo White Filipa Wallet
- Christian Louboutin Blue Anemone Pumps
- Chanel Red Quilted Snake Flap Bag
- Balenciaga Purple Medium Motorcycle
- MONCLER ALPES Jacket Black
- Jimmy Choo Blaze Studded Sandals
- Herve Leger Dark Green Front Zip Dress
Friday, March 26. 2010
How Public Radio is like street performing -- the creativity of a radically different business model
Hey NPR, you're just another mime annoying the passerby.
In a manner of speaking. Or not speaking.
In creating a new business, consider what model you will be adapting: Most project some sort of you pay us and we'll provide a service or item. Hopefully the model includes getting paid more than it costs to run the business. We're looking at you GM.
But what if...? You didn't charge at all. Just gave away your stuff and hoped that it was so fantastic that people would just plain donate enough money back to run to stay in business? Crazy. Its like a permanent Sampling? Like it? Get some.
But the guys busking in Key West are making it work - If you like their show, donate whatever you want to. If you don't no worries. And now authors, bands and other creatives are giving it all away. And making money doing so.
Big Idea: Consider being a mime. Or adopting a non-standard business model to make money.
In a manner of speaking. Or not speaking.
In creating a new business, consider what model you will be adapting: Most project some sort of you pay us and we'll provide a service or item. Hopefully the model includes getting paid more than it costs to run the business. We're looking at you GM.
But what if...? You didn't charge at all. Just gave away your stuff and hoped that it was so fantastic that people would just plain donate enough money back to run to stay in business? Crazy. Its like a permanent Sampling? Like it? Get some.
But the guys busking in Key West are making it work - If you like their show, donate whatever you want to. If you don't no worries. And now authors, bands and other creatives are giving it all away. And making money doing so.
Big Idea: Consider being a mime. Or adopting a non-standard business model to make money.
Thursday, March 25. 2010
Feedback from our readers - what would you like to see?
We write about lots of things; ideas, corporate culture, movies, creativity, writing, comedy, writing comedy, teaching, tools, and emerging tech.
Because that's what we like, read about and fascinates us. But what about you? Anything you'd like to see more discussion of? New topics to cover? (Q & A perhaps?)
Post you ideas in the comments.
Today's Big idea: Create content your audience wants. By asking them directly. Even if it involves sentence fragments.
Who are you guys and what are you doing here distracting me? The Big Idea Blog is written by David Duccini & David Walbridge
Because that's what we like, read about and fascinates us. But what about you? Anything you'd like to see more discussion of? New topics to cover? (Q & A perhaps?)
Post you ideas in the comments.
Today's Big idea: Create content your audience wants. By asking them directly. Even if it involves sentence fragments.
Who are you guys and what are you doing here distracting me? The Big Idea Blog is written by David Duccini & David Walbridge
Monday, March 22. 2010
Don't get mad, get youtube
Bad customer service. Its always surprising - given that most of what we buy is services - But truly poor service is astounding, especially when a competing service is literally down the street. Me? I rarely complain. Instead I vote with my dollars and take my business elsewhere. Economic Darwinism, I suppose.
You can get mad.
You can complain.
Or you can be creative. {And it can launch your career.}
Dave Carroll saw United airlines break his guitar. His tool. His expensive instrument with which he makes his living. He complained. He got mad. Then he got on youtube with United breaks guitars ** Eight million views later...
His written story, which inspired the song.
What do I like about his response? Several things: Its creative. Its funny. Its true. It got a HUGE response. Thousands of people will re-consider flying United because of it. He created a beautiful, simple, successful meme. They say in theater that somewhere in the world, in one language or another, tonight, a production of Romeo and Juliet is playing. I suspect that somewhere, today, a customer saddles up to a United Airlines counter is some small airport {Wichita? Duluth? JFK?} and asks about this song. I know I will. Even if I never fly United. Success.
Today's big idea: Don't get mad. Get publicity.
(** Simple name. Clean direct. More on naming products in later blogs)
You can get mad.
You can complain.
Or you can be creative. {And it can launch your career.}
Dave Carroll saw United airlines break his guitar. His tool. His expensive instrument with which he makes his living. He complained. He got mad. Then he got on youtube with United breaks guitars ** Eight million views later...
His written story, which inspired the song.
What do I like about his response? Several things: Its creative. Its funny. Its true. It got a HUGE response. Thousands of people will re-consider flying United because of it. He created a beautiful, simple, successful meme. They say in theater that somewhere in the world, in one language or another, tonight, a production of Romeo and Juliet is playing. I suspect that somewhere, today, a customer saddles up to a United Airlines counter is some small airport {Wichita? Duluth? JFK?} and asks about this song. I know I will. Even if I never fly United. Success.
Today's big idea: Don't get mad. Get publicity.
(** Simple name. Clean direct. More on naming products in later blogs)
Thursday, March 18. 2010
Putting the 'Cult' back into Culture
There's been a lot of buzz and rubric in the last few years about how the next growth story companies will be based on organizations that are "focused on sustainable growth", "socially consciousness", "built on foundations of engaged employees", or doing business "better, faster, cheaper" -- sound familiar? Does hearing that many hollow mantras in a row invoke a gag-reflex? It should.
Most of those messages are not coming from inside the company, but from outside consulting firms hired to help lost companies find their way. And true to the nature of the grand tradition of consultancy, the company hires the truthsayer to point out that the emperor has no clothes, pays the bill, and sends them on their way.
In other words, those messages are "bolted on" versus "baked in" to the cultures of those companies that choose to repeat them.
I think that
If the message your company is projecting is not delivered with conviction and authenticity by a management that leads by example the net effect is little more than a grotesque parody of propaganda. The messages become a source of derision when the actions of the company are counter to the cultural image it claims to project. The more the company repeats the inauthentic message, the more often it becomes the capstone butt of many conversations.
Tribal knowledge, especially customs, are based on an oral tradition through the form of stories told and retold. Those messages are heard, internalized and repeated and amplified out. They become memes through which knowledge is passed from one person to another. You'll find the true believers in any message become the new carriers for that message and bring it to the organization.
"See it, Own it, Do it." or as Gandhi is oft quoted:
The key is to find the right beat that everyone can dance to...
Who are you guys and what are you doing here distracting me? The Big Idea Blog is written by David Duccini & David Walbridge
Most of those messages are not coming from inside the company, but from outside consulting firms hired to help lost companies find their way. And true to the nature of the grand tradition of consultancy, the company hires the truthsayer to point out that the emperor has no clothes, pays the bill, and sends them on their way.
In other words, those messages are "bolted on" versus "baked in" to the cultures of those companies that choose to repeat them.
I think that
It's time to put the "cult" back into "culture"!The measure of any initiative, especially one that involves a fundamental cultural shift, lies not in how many people are "card carrying members", but rather in the size of the choir that sings the songs!
If the message your company is projecting is not delivered with conviction and authenticity by a management that leads by example the net effect is little more than a grotesque parody of propaganda. The messages become a source of derision when the actions of the company are counter to the cultural image it claims to project. The more the company repeats the inauthentic message, the more often it becomes the capstone butt of many conversations.
Tribal knowledge, especially customs, are based on an oral tradition through the form of stories told and retold. Those messages are heard, internalized and repeated and amplified out. They become memes through which knowledge is passed from one person to another. You'll find the true believers in any message become the new carriers for that message and bring it to the organization.
"See it, Own it, Do it." or as Gandhi is oft quoted:
Be change you want to see in the world.So today's big idea is this: Actions speak louder than words but the right words lead to right action. This is the essence of leading by example.
The key is to find the right beat that everyone can dance to...
Who are you guys and what are you doing here distracting me? The Big Idea Blog is written by David Duccini & David Walbridge
Wednesday, March 17. 2010
Republican health care plan, Tea baggers and the opposite of helping....
Generating new ideas is hard.
Implementing them is harder.
But its easy to be a nay-sayer, drag your feet and to prevent change.
The Republican party, top to bottom is opposed to health care reform. We get that. The Democratic plan is imperfect and expensive. Very expensive. We get that. But -- it is a plan. Its something. Obama is pushing for support. Pushing hard. (Wonder if he'll go so far as to book a guest spot on Oprah?)
Block, block, block. No, no, no. We get that.
But what is the Republican alternative? To get coverage for the poor and the 'already have health issues' block of people. Anything?
Here. Their plan..
How much the Republican plan would cost and how many uninsured Americans would gain coverage remains unclear. Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
And it has no specifics -- like cost or coverage.
A dog in the manger?
This blog is about ideas -- Creating them, championing them, and sometimes -- change the world ideas. Where are the ideas in the GOP?
"Not that" is not a solution. (Palin opposed single payer health care, but used single payer health care. Natch) In every group, there are those who have ideas, and energy to move things forward. And those who while not offering ideas or energy of their own, oppose new ideas, movement and any change. The world changes. Your business is changing. Technology advances -- You can fight this, or you can think ahead. Plan. Come up with creative solutions. suggest. Support. Or fight every change.
Today's big idea: You can be part of the solution. Or you can fight it. But the world will change without you...
A reader responds with this link to the rep health care plan . Telling quote from that story "The analysis shows the Republican plan would do little to expand coverage, which Democrats were quick to point out in a late night missive to reporters." So their response is, mostly, things are fine, don't change it. Block, resist, interfere, fight.
The CBO chimes in today --- and the democratic health care plan reduces the deficit. "The Congressional Budget Office estimated the legislation would reduce the federal deficit by $138 billion over its first 10 years, and continue to drive down the red ink thereafter"
And the republican response? ROADBLOCK
Discussion point -- What are the tea party members in favor of? Or are they just simply opposed to everything?
Bogworld - In which joe reviews both healthcare and 'How to train your dragon."
Implementing them is harder.
But its easy to be a nay-sayer, drag your feet and to prevent change.
The Republican party, top to bottom is opposed to health care reform. We get that. The Democratic plan is imperfect and expensive. Very expensive. We get that. But -- it is a plan. Its something. Obama is pushing for support. Pushing hard. (Wonder if he'll go so far as to book a guest spot on Oprah?)
Block, block, block. No, no, no. We get that.
But what is the Republican alternative? To get coverage for the poor and the 'already have health issues' block of people. Anything?
Here. Their plan..
How much the Republican plan would cost and how many uninsured Americans would gain coverage remains unclear. Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
And it has no specifics -- like cost or coverage.
A dog in the manger?
This blog is about ideas -- Creating them, championing them, and sometimes -- change the world ideas. Where are the ideas in the GOP?
"Not that" is not a solution. (Palin opposed single payer health care, but used single payer health care. Natch) In every group, there are those who have ideas, and energy to move things forward. And those who while not offering ideas or energy of their own, oppose new ideas, movement and any change. The world changes. Your business is changing. Technology advances -- You can fight this, or you can think ahead. Plan. Come up with creative solutions. suggest. Support. Or fight every change.
Today's big idea: You can be part of the solution. Or you can fight it. But the world will change without you...
A reader responds with this link to the rep health care plan . Telling quote from that story "The analysis shows the Republican plan would do little to expand coverage, which Democrats were quick to point out in a late night missive to reporters." So their response is, mostly, things are fine, don't change it. Block, resist, interfere, fight.
The CBO chimes in today --- and the democratic health care plan reduces the deficit. "The Congressional Budget Office estimated the legislation would reduce the federal deficit by $138 billion over its first 10 years, and continue to drive down the red ink thereafter"
And the republican response? ROADBLOCK
Discussion point -- What are the tea party members in favor of? Or are they just simply opposed to everything?
Bogworld - In which joe reviews both healthcare and 'How to train your dragon."
