There’s a lot of talk this time of year about retail sales, consumer spending and what this means for The Economy. With this talk comes statistics, and with these statistics come the classic metric of traditional retail, Same-Store Sales , or as I like to call it, Seam Sore Stales (Stale Sore Seams? Stole Sears Mare?). [...]
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A funny thing happened to me on the way to Norman, Oklahoma. My so-called smartphone, a Samsung SCH-i760 which runs Windows (@%$&) Mobile 6-point-something, has a funny way of handling time zones. It’s a bit too smart for its own good. Oklahoma is officially in U.S. Central time, with a small portion of the state unofficially [...]
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In terms of public awareness efforts, there’s seems to be this gulf between two extremes in approach, with these enviromental-impact-analogies. On the one hand you’ve got boring, extreme nitpicking, and on the other hand, you’ve got stupid-looking oversimplification. And the two approaches hurt each other’s credibility and efficacy.
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A major factor in whether people enjoy the place they work has to do with the quality of the people they work with, and whether there are ample opportunities to learn from those people. Some professions lend themselves to this naturally. Take the firm I work for, RogenSi, which is a Business Performance Consultancy. Back [...]
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