I was getting my haircut at a local barbershop, and a phone call came in. This is what I overheard from my barber-
Yes sir!
Yes, this is a barbershop.
No sir, we just cut hair, just boys and men, we dont do any of that foofey stuff here
That’s when it hit me why I liked coming there. …
Monthly Archive
for: ‘March, 2010’
Losing Sight of the Basics?
Defining Your Personal Leadership Brand
HBR has a good collection of 5 important steps for this
What results do you want to achieve in the next year?
What do you wish to be known for?
Define your identity
Construct your leadership brand statement, then test it.
Make your brand identity real.
New Rules of Leadership?
Interesting article at Inc. – Are you in favor of tossing out any of the ‘old’ rules of leadership?
Among the interesting ideas-
Forget face time and meetings
Work weekends
Cut communication
Sneak Preview: iPad Dashboard
Here’s a video showing a sneak preview of the Dashboard on the iPad.
Do you have any links to any more sneak previews?
Photo: Stunning Site Redesign Page
This is a great example of some real thought put into a ’site redesign’ page. It’s beautiful. Do you have any other examples of great work like this?
How Do You Feel About Geolocation?
SocialMediaToday poses a few interesting questions in light of the recent popularity of applications like FourSquare:
“Is this needed?”
“How will it significantly improve my life?”
“What are the potential consequences of using this?”
Personally I am still not sure the benefits of it outweigh the privacy risks associated with it. Foursquare and geotagging is useful for friends in …
Infinite USB Plug
Endagadget reports that a Chinese design student Gonglue Jiang has shown a new way to overcome the limitations imposed by the scarcity of USB ports on some computers. There’s no need to hot swap devices into a single port.
Innovative: Sketch a Search App
Yahoo released an iPhone app that lets you literally draw a circle around a specific area and search restaurants inside that custom area. This is an excellent upgrade over searching ‘near’ current location and getting lots of useless results. For me, this is the first big thing I have seen that’s a benefit over Google …
Subscribe to RSS by CONTENT
An interesting new concept is out called Fliptop. It allows you to subscribe to a site’s RSS feed and filter by content or keyword instead of the full feed. This could be a great way to bridge the gap between staying up to date with a site, but at the same time not being inundated …
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