The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries, is a book that leverages the scientific method to redefine entrepreneurship as the process of developing successful, innovative and ...
A woman was at San Onofre State Beach collecting rocks with her children, when a fire erupted in her shorts causing 2nd and 3rd degree burns.
Initial tests indicate two of the rocks had phosphorus on them, Denise Fennessy, Orange County environmental health official, told The Associated Press.
Phosphorous can burn when exposed to air, Concepcion said. He said the rocks were 2 to 3 inches round. One had green specks and another had orange specks.
Via U-T
Care.
Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.
No one reports liking Steve Jobs very much, yet he was as embraced as any businessperson since Walt Disney. Because he cared. He cared deeply about what he was making and how it would be used. Of course, he didn’t just care in a general, amorphous, whiny way, he cared and then actually delivered.
While economists and others illustrate that caring leads to repeat customers, more profit and better brand perception, Godin states that such reasons miss the mark. Instead, he writes, caring provides direction and should be the reason we show up at work every day.
LexBlog founder Kevin O’Keefe recently chaired a program in San Francisco regarding social media for legal business development. During the discussion, someone suggested that the day may come when lawyers are required to use an RSS reader. (An RSS reader allows one to review the articles and posts linked by RSS feeds. See this video by CommonCraft for an excellent explanation.)
Kevin’s point is that lawyers have an ethical obligation to stay informed regarding changes in the law – in other words, keeping abreast of news and information pertaining to their profession. Shouldn’t this be an ethical obligation for every profession?
15 to 20 percent of Americans use an RSS reader to receive customized news and information.
The group tends to be comprised of very busy people who are required as part of what they do to stay up to speed with news, information, and insight. They don’t have time to get information the old fashioned way through print or online by search, browsing, or bookmarking websites.
The group also tends to include professionals who need to collaborate with and learn from peers in their profession as well as engage those around them in their industry.
The tally system most of us grew up with consists of vertical lines representing the first four counts, followed by a slash for the fifth. It looks like this:
Image courtesy Wikipedia
A Reddit user by the name of PeopleAreOkay submitted a new method of tallying based on dots and lines enabling counting from one to ten:
Via Reddit
Brooks Barnes recently wrote about an unlikely division of Disney in the New York Times. Called Disney Institute, the division operates as a management consulting firm that aims to help businesses better understand the correlation between happy customers and happy bottom lines.
Desperate for new ways to connect with consumers, an increasing array of industries and organizations are paying Disney to teach them how to become, well, more like Disney.
Revenue from the Disney Institute has doubled over the last three years, according to Disney, powered in part by its aggressive pursuit of new business. Over the last two years alone, 300 school systems across the country have sought its advice.
Other clients range from very large entities — Häagen-Dazs International, United Airlines, the country of South Africa — to small ones: three Subway restaurants in Maine, a Michigan hair salon, a Boston youth-counseling center.
Via NYT
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