Bruce
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older experienced people and transformational hires
July 28, 2010 - 11:07 pm
Tags: alignment, boomers who can communicate and motovate all age groups, builders versus renovators, business, Business Thoughts, communication, decision making, generation gap is bigger than ever before, leadership, lessons, old but not old, older experienced people who know how to transform. experienced but flexible, one foot in history one foot in future, organizations, strategy, transformational people, transitioning organizations
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So. In the past months I received two things that didn’t seem related but in my warped mind they did: 1. Ralph Cutcher (a nice really smart guy) talked in his newsletter about helping companies hire more transformational people. Here is what he said: - Transformational Players –During the last year, most of our assignments [...]
the song: Compliments from Band of Horses
July 27, 2010 - 11:36 pm
Tags: addictive songs, band of horses, bearded song theme, ben bridwell, feel good nonsense song, good listening, music, no is gonna love you better song, Stuff I Like, the song compliments
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Okay. So this will complete my “bearded songs I suggest you listen to” week. Compliments from Band of Horses from their new cd Infinite Arms. While I have always liked their sound I also have thought their music has been a little uneven in listenability. But they have such a distinct sound if you like [...]
national program to support Childhood Curiosity
July 27, 2010 - 11:35 pm
Tags: character, communication, curiosity, curiosity fulfillment teachers, educate to innovate, educating to feed curiosity, education, ignorance, kids curiosity, learning, lessons, life lessons, national program for curiosity, no child left behind, recommendation, responsibility, Stuff I Like, truth
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So I saw a TV commercial encouraging maintaining arts/music in schools curriculum the other day. I didn’t pay much attention to the details and I am not really a government program gwonk (whatever that is) but I assume someone in their infinite wisdom is cutting money supporting these things in schools. Well, in general, I [...]
addictive song: beg steal or borrow by ray lamontagne
July 27, 2010 - 2:02 am
Tags: addictive songs, beg steal or borrow, great highway listening music, introspective and stark music, music, pure praire league type sound, ray lamontagne, recommendation, Stuff I Like
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Ray Lamontagne is an acquired taste. He has a new cd coming out in mid august (that is not it to the left .. . that is an old good cd example). I think this song, Beg Steal or Borrow, is the pre-release for the cd. A lot of his other stuff gets a little [...]
shakespeare and self esteem
July 27, 2010 - 1:57 am
Tags: be true to thineself, brand, branding, Business Thoughts, character, not everyone will be your friend, quotations, quotes, respect, self esteem and thineself, Shakespeare, Stuff I Like, thineself in brand is often overlooked, thineself in branding, truth, truth is difficult, words
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“Be true to thineself.” Shakespeare I used this quote in maybe one of my first 5 posts but since my friend Jen referenced it with regard to self esteem I thought I would bring it back and refresh it slightly with the whole self esteem discussion in mind (as well as my recent rant on [...]
new song: Light Outside by WAKEY!WAKEY!
July 26, 2010 - 9:39 am
Tags: addictive songs, frenetic writing style, great piano player, lesser known musicians, music, one tree hill music, recommendation, Stuff I Like, wakeywakey
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So. About the only thing I am a sucker for in songwriting, beyond a bass player who writes songs, is a keyboard singer/songwriter. This guy is a dynamic personality at the piano and isn’t afraid to wrap different instruments (violins and strings) to fill out a pretty frenetic writing style. Also has a wonderful habit [...]
a rant on ad agencies differentiation: part 2 the so-called proprietary process
July 25, 2010 - 11:54 pm
Tags: advertising, agency, branding, business, Business Thoughts, communication, creativity, creativity process, differentiation, discipline but freedom, disciplined chaos, discovery is messy, discovery is ofetn about the unintended result, it isn't process it is the work, lessons, marketing, messaging, no one wants to trust chaos, organized chaos, people confuse process and disciplined thinking, process is a means to an end, simplicity seems too chaotic, strategy, Stuff I Like, the depths of zaniness agencies go to, the myth of the proprietary process, the whizbang creative process, truth
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A noted in part 1 I believe the core of any advertising agency differentiation is “it’s about the work.” But. Often the agency that is not instantly ‘knowable’ by its work immediately drops down into “our proprietary process” mode (which suggests .. “We can do as good a shit as those Crispin/JWT/GSDM/whomever folk because we [...]
public radio music surprise
July 25, 2010 - 2:54 pm
Tags: beautiful harmonies, beautifully crafted songs, bruce cockburn, cold roses, good music, great three song sets, jangly guitar, lesser known musicians, life, music, night train, public radio music, ryan adams, Stuff I Like
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It’s an 11 hour drive from San Francisco to Portland Oregon. You can listen to a lot of music and check out a boatload of crappy music stations. So when I wandered into the bottom end of the dial and the public radio station was ending a talk segment and moving into music I almost [...]
