While it’s a little sad that we’ve come to expect crappy customer service, it causes the good experiences to stand out. Here are a couple of examples from just this week. One: Monday night, my wife and I went to the local Qdoba restaurant and each ordered one of their Signature Burritos – the Seasoned […]
I’m having a hard time coming to grips with the tragic school shooting that occured in Red Lake Minnesota yesterday. I never would have thought something like this could happen so close to home. I grew up in the small town of Brooks Minnesota, population 140, just one hour away from Red Lake. I now […]
Although it seems that all I’ve been doing the last week is linking to Seth Godin blog entries (which may well be true), this post from today was too good not to comment on. Talking about the 119 Harvard Business School applicants rejected because they “hacked” a website to find the status of their application, […]
In thinking about Seth Godin’s upcoming book, All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World, I’ve thought of a great example that would fit right in with the stories on the Liar’s Blog. What is it? The Moleskine notebook. For those of you who aren’t familar, the Moleskine is […]
I just got my butt kicked this morning on my Intermediate Accounting II exam. I honestly don’t know what happened – I read the chapters, did all the assigned problems, and spent the weekend and the last two nights studying my brains out by doing and redoing both the assigned problems and the problems in […]
If you’ve read some of my previous entries or have taken a look at my reading list, you may have noticed that I’m somewhat of a Seth Godin groupie. After taking a graduate marketing course in the fall of 2003 and becoming pretty cynical about the whole topic, I found Seth Godin’s books very refreshing. […]
In case anyone was wondering, yes, I’m still alive. For some reason this week seems especially busy, so I haven’t had time to post anything yet. Needless to say, things and going great! Between work, my MBA classes, and my own reading list, I feel like I’m absorbing more knowledge now than in any other […]