by Whitney | Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
I’ve started a new book- Trade Off- Why some things catch on and other’s don’t- the ever present tension between quality and convenience by Kevin Maney. Kevin starts out by talking about what he calls the Fidelity of experiences- which is sort of a...
by Whitney | Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Quite Possibly. (Warning: geeky science post ahead) A few years ago, I was in the UK and caught a program discussing Global Warming and the Gulf stream. In a nut shell, the world’s oceans have a current, or motion called Thermohaline circulation, where based...
by Whitney | Feb 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
In recent days, we’ve all heard the story of the Americans from Idaho who went to Haiti to help the children, but ended up with a group of children that included kids who weren’t orphans, and failed to go through any of the required hoops to legally bring...
by Whitney | Feb 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
I have been a fan of Seth Godin’s for a long time. I read his blogs, buy his books, and frequently recommend them to friends. (In fact, we celebrated my birthday this year at Max Brenner’s restaurant, in part due to reading about Max in Seth’s...
by Whitney | Feb 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Getting everyone pointed in the same direction and working as a team can be hard. There was great article in the New York Times, an interview with Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga, about how he looks to people to the the “CEO of Something.” It’s a...
