In a great speech from TED global 2009, Daniel Pink discusses the issue of motivation and incentives. See the speech here: [youtube=] Pink describes the “candle problem” as a classic model of when incentives work and when they actually hinder…
Neon Open Sign Originally uploaded by gregmeyer Are you open to new ideas? Do you spend some of your time every day thinking about divergent or weird things? Have you challenged yourself to question the ways things are done lately?…
I recently finished reading Michael Lewis’ excellent book The Big Short, and I’m left with two emotions: surprise at how long the party lasted for securities with no underlying value, and shock at the lack of questions we all had…
It’s a crazy internet meme — you’ve probably seen the Blendtec guy already — but when I saw him destroy an iPad today, it gave me an idea. Blendtec’s literal blending of an iPad made me think of the way…
View from Empire State Building Originally uploaded by gregmeyer If you want to see New York, you need to see it from the Empire State Building. I recently took a tour and viewed the city from the observatory on the…
Lake Washington Originally uploaded by gregmeyer Chris Brogan’s post yesterday on Nikon’s request for him to test a D300 spurred me to think more about being a “photographer”. When I was a kid, I thought a photographer was someone with…
Pioneer square Originally uploaded by gregmeyer Working in the city of Seattle in the Pioneer Square area is a bit gritty. It’s nothing like gliding to work in the gleaming eastside office towers of Bellevue, pulling into the parking garage,…
[slideshare id=3339686&doc=socialcrmthenewrulesofrelationshipmanagement-100304181215-phpapp02&type=d] Organizations are getting social, whether they like it … or not. In their report “Social CRM: The New Rules of Relationship Management“, Altimeter Group‘s R “Ray” Wang and Jeremiah Owyang detail 18 use cases to help businesses react…
What’s your creative process? Reading Tyler Cowen‘s “Create Your Own Economy” and Temple Grandin‘s “Thinking in Pictures” has inspired me to look at my own creative process and to examine the ways in which I do and don’t think like…
Shel Israel’s Twitterville gives an entertaining fly-through of the world of Twitter, from the beginnings of the service to its current state as a real-time news service for millions. Israel also profiles several businesses that have engaged customers on Twitter…
