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If someone tells you that you can’t do something, that you’re not allowed, or it’s not possible, what is your reaction?
Have they given you a Constraint or a Limitation? And what’s the difference?
Both constraints and limitations are boundaries on what you can do. But depending on how you think, one will condemn you […]

Starbucks means quality coffee. Not sandwiches. Not 99 cent bargain coffee. Not even music. It means coffee. I know this and I don’t even drink coffee.
So when Starbucks is faced with the inevitable, the slowing of its stellar growth, what’s the solution? Some say expand into other areas, widen the […]

There are geniuses at Ford Motor Company. They know exactly what customers want. So well in fact, that they load up an inventory of tens of thousands of cars at dealerships, confident that each car is exactly what one of their customers wants.
So how does Ford have such prescience and Dell has been […]

How do you know which blogs are consistently wasting your time? Enter Google Reader’s Trends feature and 30 days of data collection.
This is a tale of 3 blogs: Engadget, Techmeme and Lifehacker. According to Google Reader these three blogs produce, on average respectively, 29.4, 22.8 and 13.8 posts per day. Now, I […]

I’m a Mac convert. I hadn’t used an Apple machine regularly since the Apple IIc when I was a child, but since January of this year I’ve been happily typing away on a Macbook.
Now I could launch into the typical soliloquy on how great my Mac is and how using it will cure Cancer […]