grajgushost2019-09-23T22:08:16+00:00July 12th, 2010|
In the film Legally Blonde, Elle (played by Reese Witherspoon), as an absolutely unexpected Harvard law scholar, comes up with some totally improbable lines. Like: "It's impossible to use a half-loop stitching on low-viscosity rayon." [...]
grajgushost2019-09-23T21:51:46+00:00July 3rd, 2010|
Ideas go in and out of fashion. Any fool knows that. A far more interesting premise: It's not just ideas that lose their shine. A certain species of idea may be on the rise or [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:07:30+00:00May 6th, 2010|
Kevin Kelly just penned an eye-popping article for Wired. It's titled "The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online." Every business person ought to read it, especially all those charged with 'creative' tasks in [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:50:24+00:00May 5th, 2010|
As a society, we're doing a better job of managing the economics of a better life. That includes taking a sharper look the price-tag when we want to splurge on upscale things. Reading labels with [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:38:32+00:00April 30th, 2010|
Living in NOW has its own very exacting economics. Focus is imperative to getting it right. You have to discriminate between what is important and what is not. This criterion is essential for small businesses [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:35:43+00:00April 25th, 2010|
Hockey great Wayne Gretzky played the game with a wonderful attitude: "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been," he once said. This puck-and-action-centered thinking is a liberating [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:31:24+00:00April 20th, 2010|
Niche marketing doggedly pursued a single-minded target. What kind of person are you and how do I serve you best? NOW-niche marketing expands the question. What kind of person are you NOW and how do [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:31:04+00:00April 15th, 2010|
You can prototype a business vision very quickly in NOW time: Zoom from vision to reality with hypersonic Mach speed. The impacts of steering a business from this kind of cockpit can be jarring. A [...]
grajgushost2019-09-24T17:21:17+00:00April 10th, 2010|
Back in 1990, John Guare wrote a play called Six Degrees of Separation. Three years later, that play led to a film with the same title starring Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland and Ian [...]
grajgushost2019-09-23T22:10:37+00:00March 30th, 2010|
During the recent deep downturn, alarmists painted a bleak picture of consumer behavior and retreat: • Frills would disappear forever. • Consumers would agonize endlessly over buying decisions. • High-utility products would drive style and [...]
