Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Stephen Wright
Coffee break
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Stephen Wright
Category: quote
Coffee grounds
i’m orange peels. i’m coffee grounds. i’m wisdom.
Marjory The Trash Heap, Fraggle Rock, Season 1, Episode 1
Three Keys to Effective Execution
Why can even the most brilliant strategies founder in the implementation phase? “When things haven’t gone as planned, it’s often because the process wasn’t well defined, we missed a step, or we didn’t follow a specific sequence,” says Gordon Woodfall, former president and general manager of Waltham, Mass.-based Thermo KeyTek (now Thermo Fisher Scientific). The execution phase forces you to translate your broad-brush conceptual understanding of your company’s strategy into an intimate familiarity with how it will all happen: who will take on which tasks in what sequence, how long those tasks will take, how much they’ll cost, and how they’ll affect subsequent activities.
Here are three recommendations to help you make this translation.
1. Communicate the key points
2. Develop tracking systems that facilitate problem solving
3. Set up formal reviews
More here http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hmu/2008/02/three-keys-to-effective-execut.php
Social Media Marketing Report
According to a social media study by Michael Stelzner, sponsored by the upcoming Social Media Success Summit 2009, 88% of marketers are now using social media in some form and 72% have begun within the last few months.
Key findings from the data conclude that:
- Small-business owners are more likely to use LinkedIn than employees working for a corporation.
- Men are significantly more likely to use YouTube or other video marketing than women (52.4% of all men compared with 31.7% of women).
- For those just getting under way with social media marketing, LinkedIn is ranked as their number-two choice, pushing blogging down one notch.
- Among those who have been using social media for a few months, Facebook is in second place. This group also has more Twitter use.
- Twitter is used by 94% of marketers who have been using social media for years, followed closely by blogs. This group also endorses online video significantly moreso than the other groups
SocialMediaMarketingIndustryReport.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Searching for a perfect utopia
know anyone like this? okay, okay, don’t start pointing fingers…
“many of us are so bad because we’re trying so hard to be good…. some of us are trying so hard to be good because and we’re trying to keep the bad people out… you’re the ones that are complaining about everything… you’re looking for this perfect utopia where everybody does everything just so and usually it is according to the morals you set up by picking and choosing form various churches and various moral agencies and you’re saying, ‘these are the things you have to have to line up to be right and we won’t be part of you until become one of us.’ ….you’re the folks that won’t join a church because they don’t do everything just so and you’re not willing to even dialogue about it and if it’s not this way it’s no-way…”
-kurt hannah
Don’t edit yourself
Other people will edit you your whole life. They’ll take what you say and keep the bits they like and throw away the rest.
Don’t edit yourself. Let other people do it for you.
(via I wrote this for you) (via kari-shma) (via ireadintothings)
C.S. Lewis was abducted by aliens?
um… does this mean c.s. lewis was abducted by aliens?
twitter isn’t the right place
misssnowwhite: funny how when you really want to say something, twitter isn’t the right place.
Ethics, not morality
Christians should not talk so much about “morality,” a word derived from mores, the beliefs of a particular tribe. Ethics, however, are based on ideas that are true at all times and in all cultures.
what if our homes were places… of hospitality
what if our homes were places not where you retreat from the big bad world but what if they were places of hospitality where we welcome people in and we share life with them and we ask them about their hopes and dreams and… their failures?
kurt hannah
Screen Addiction
Even when we try to avoid looking at screens, our eyes are naturally drawn to their flickering lights. The dazzling special effects of our iPhones and our video games stimulate our brains more powerfully than reality. Given the option of looking at the slow pace of nature unfold or the frenetic speed of a big budget movie playing on a tiny screen, we often choose the screen. […] Our visual addiction is masking our fear of feeling existence to its fullest.
Screen Addiction, Adbusters (via somethingchanged) (via jomc)
Good books are truer than reality
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway, Esquire, December 1934 (via 52books)
In defense of readers
Reading is a necessarily solitary experience—like dying, everyone reads alone—but over the centuries readers have learned how to cultivate that solitude, how to grow it in the least hospitable environments. An experienced reader can lose herself in a good text with anything short of a war going on (and, sometimes, even then)—the horticultural equivalent of growing orchids in a desert.
Despite the ubiquity of reading on the web, readers remain a neglected audience. Much of our talk about web design revolves around a sense of movement: users are thought to be finding, searching, skimming, looking. We measure how frequently they click but not how long they stay on the page. We concern ourselves with their travel and participation—how they move from page to page, who they talk to when they get there—but forget the needs of those whose purpose is to be still. Readers flourish when they have space—some distance from the hubbub of the crowds—and as web designers, there is yet much we can do to help them carve out that space.
screading
America is not a Christian nation
America is no longer a Christian nation… that seems to be the top phrase for some politicians today, even with nearly 4 out of every 5 Americans claiming to be a Christian. And of course in Britain, Richard Dawkins helped support a wide-spread advertising campaign on buses, stating there’s “probably no God,” even though a recent census stated that nearly 70% of Britains claimed to be Christians.
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Reading the dictionary
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright
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Don’t take poets seriously
We don’t take [poets] seriously; we don’t think that poetry can move people to do passionate things. But poets did. Poets could change cultures. Before there was so much contest for people’s attention, poets were the ones who literally brought the news from one place to another, walking from town to town, which is how we got everything to be iambic and memorable and rhymed and metered, because the tradition was oral before it was literary.
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Can’t rain all the time…
eric draven
You’re a car
RT @ashevilleraised: RT @h0zae: Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car. (overheard)
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every day is exactly the same
every day is exactly the same
there is no love here and there is no pain
every day is exactly the same
i’m writing on a little piece of paper
i’m hoping someday you might find
well i’ll hide it behind something
they won’t look behind
i’m still inside here…
every day is exactly the same, tried to escape the last song’s addictive quality only to have this nine inch nails song lodged between my ears… & on repeat…
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you got the most
but nobody loves you
nobody has to
just because
just because
just because, i’ve gotta jane’s addiction song stuck in my head
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RT @justincherry: “the church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.” – Tim Keller
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RT @scottkauffmann: TK at #GCI: You have to deconstruct legalism in the church or non-Christians won’t know u r offering something different
counter culture always becomes the culture
it’s a mature brand… the counter culture always becomes the culture… i don’t know if [rolling stone] is irrelevant… they’re still in business… they sell more than million copies…
music journalist, kurt loder [in this video] — regarding current rolling stone versus the old rolling stone
Coffeehouse Junkie 