Don’t Drink and Drive, Unless You Drink 12-Ounce Diet Cokes and Drive a Hybrid

We’ll, we dodged a bullet by leasing rather than buying our Toyota Highlander four years ago. We just turned it in, and even though we got hit with a $1200 disposal cost (including “excessive” wear and tear), at least we don’t have to worry about $4.00+ gasoline costs now that Karen is driving a [...]

Breaking Down Barriers in Order to Maximize the Value of IT

In my MBA courses, we have been discussing how technology can help accelerate the value of an organization’s effectiveness, and this past weekend we heard two excellent presentations on how both Chipotle’s and Target Corporation do this. There is an excellent article in today’s Wall Street Journal that discusses how organizations can better utilize [...]

Great marketing makes me cringe…

The Wall Street Journal described a great marketing idea: send your loved ones (e.g., husbands) a specific wish list from your favorite store. The stores claim that women are tired of hoping their husbands will get them a great gift, so they are using these wish lists to help them give great gifts.
While [...]

Is there a sex difference between softies and curmudgeons?

Update, 10/16/07:
In today’s Wall Street Journal, there is a commentary that may help to explain why there are more men than women among Thinkers, and more women than men among Feelers, in the Myers-Briggs personality assessment:
Another speaker, Richard Haier, professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine, acknowledged the long history of prejudice, then [...]

Building Trust online is a leap of faith

There is a great article in WebProNews this week about how to build trust online. Some articles just talk in general about trust, but this one actually outlines steps you can take to make your web presence more credible. It looks like this is based on research at Stanford on web credibility.
Trust online [...]

Article calls into question Forbes credibility…

I just read the piece that has everyone in a fit on Forbes.com, entitled, “Don’t Marry Career Women”.  Now, I’m in a fit.  Wendy Davis at Media Post reports that this article started off alone, then resurfaced as a package with a counterpoint article entitled, “Don’t marry a lazy man.”  Thank goodness other bloggers caught [...]

When do friendly connections become spam?

Newsitis, a new digital disease was documented in MediaPost today by David Berkowitz.  His significant other claimed she "was over" myspace.com, and the article goes on to include a reference to LinkedIn.  LinkedIn is the one I've been having trouble with (since it is more my demographic than myspace). 
The first couple of invitations I got, [...]

Trust online is also important…

John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, told an audience that online trust is critical in the global economy. 
‘As more interactions happen online, it becomes critical that each and every one of us – enterprises and consumers alike – can prove to the other that we can be trusted,’ said Thompson.
The article in vnunet.com reported that not [...]