Apple Couldn’t Care Less that my Video iPod Failed

We are loyal Apple customers, having purchased several iPods, and one MacBook Pro over the past few years. For the most part, they’ve worked flawlessly, although I did have to send one back for repair. My own 80 GB video iPod just failed for good, however, having started to act up in the [...]

You’ve Read Our Book — Now Tell Us What You Think

After you’ve had a chance to read out book, we’d really appreciate getting your feedback. You can either leave it as a comment here, on Lulu.com, or on Amazon.
Thanks!
Aneil and Karen

Motorola, Phone Home for Reliability

We haven’t owned a Motorola cell phone in years (I’m not sure we ever have; it’s been so long since we’ve owned any phones besides something from Blackberry or Nokia), and it’s not hard to figure out why.  They simply haven’t created a must-have product in a long time.  When the cycle time for us [...]

High School Juniors: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

In today’s Wall Street Journal is another reminder of how we are robbing our youth of their happiness while pretending to say we care about it:

Almost two-thirds of middle- and upper-middle-income high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area told researchers that they were “often or always” stressed by schoolwork, according to a series [...]

Staples Responds in Moment of Truth, Office Depot Still in Limbo

[Update: It has now been an more than a year and a half, and Office Depot still hasn't responded to my email. I continue to order from Staples with great success.]
If you’re simply looking to find your order status on Staples.com, then this is what you need to do:
www.staples.com/orderstatus
Enter in order # XXXXXXXXX [...]

Women Share News Differently Than Men

Continuing the male/female theme of yesterday’s post, here’s a great post by our friends at the Church of the Customer:

5 things you need to know about women and word of mouth
Wondering how word of mouth works when marketing to women?
We asked Michele Miller, co-author of the new book “The Soccer Mom Myth: Today’s Female Consumer: [...]

Men Will Be Dumber in the Future

As if we men didn’t have enough of a challenge in getting through life, we men now appear willing to abandon higher education and let women do all the learning:
From the founding of the country’s first (all-male) colleges in the 17th century until just a few decades ago, men received far more education than women. [...]

Trust is Relevant for all Presidential Candidates

In Oregon, Senator Obama was asked “How do I know I can trust you ?” That is a pretty blunt question, to the point, and one that we all want to ask our prospective leaders. We would ask our leaders and leaders-to-be the following:
Give me specific reasons why I should trust you.
In what [...]

Meet the Rev. Jean Smith: Another one of our ROCC Stars

Aneil first met Jean at Princeton where she was a minister at the church he attended. They became fast friends and she officiated at our wedding. After a career in parish ministry, Jean decided to try something different and took her ministry to the water: The Seamen’s Church Institute. Jean [...]

Networking Events with Ivy Exec and Merrill Lynch

We are passing this along to our blog readers.  If you are interested, you may download the announcement here: Merrill Lynch Ivy Exec Networking Events and contact the individual below:
Dear Alumni Club Contact,
I am writing to invite the members of your club or organization to a series of recruiting events that my company Ivy [...]