The 12 Pains of Christmas
You can certainly sing this! The 12 Pains of Christmas
The holidays are here and we’re still trying to figure out how we’re going to get it all done. So, instead of asking you to work at something – anything…
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Top 5 Reasons You Will Love the Exkalibur.com Transformation
Practical Strategies to Help Leaders Get Real ResultsIn truth, I realize you really don't care that we transformed our web site.You shouldn't.You should only care if you can find what you want when you…
Leadership | Why I changed the Exkalibur Facebook page to “Building a Business”
The Exkalibur Facebook page is now
“Building a Business”
For years, I have used Facebook simply to replicate the articles I’ve published on Sword Tips, the Exkalibur blog.
I rarely provided anything else on the Facebook platform to help you and other business leaders solve their everyday problems … even though that’s what I do every day everywhere else.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
That’s not really what I intended, but it was early in the Facebook lifecycle and I wasn’t sure what I should be doing differently on the Exkalibur Facebook page.
Maybe you’ve faced the same questions as you’ve surfed the Internet waters, uncertain about what you may find where and what you can do to more efficiently to find just that exact piece of information to help you with a particular issue?
Don’t you think we’re both trying to figure out how to manage the information tsunami flowing from blogs, RSS feeds, Facebook pages, twitter feeds and a host of other sources? (more…)
Flush the recession Kool-Aid! Create your own demand!
“Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.”
~ Thomas Carlyle
A lady walked into a neighborhood market one day and spoke loudly over the counter to the head butcher.
“Your prices these days are atrocious, Sal. Joe’s Deli across the street is selling your $10 chuck roast for only $5!”
“I know, Mrs. Haggle. I saw the sign. The thing is . . . Joe doesn’t have any chuck roast.”
The law of supply and demand still rules
So, the law of supply and demand rears its head again, some days a beautiful vision, other days an ugly hag. We’re surrounded by her mystique everywhere we go. Traffic is tied up because there are more cars than highway space. Starbuck’s is backed up because people want coffee faster than it can be made. There are no paper clips in the supply room but there’s plenty of fruitcake left in the kitchen.
Even for tickets to a free concert?
Supply and demand drove markets long before economists appeared … and its jarring prevalence is unavoidable. One of my favorite examples is (more…)
The Shocking Truth about having fun!
Wanna have some fun? How about logistics? Now that's some fun, ain't it? Social media has stimulated countless phenomena ... but connecting with our communities is probably one of its…