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Category: Socionomics
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Wednesday August 29 2012 I happened to mention that the most important book you wil ever read is Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. The book was written in the 1930s but while times change people don't. The book has sold millions of copies and when I amazoned it I was amazed…
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Weekend August 18 2012 India only won six olympic medals. This article makes the point that the Olympics only seem imortant for countries like Britain and the US, or one like, uh, North Korea. Read why here. Okay so Mike Phelps is a great swimmer. What will he do with that accomplishment? Coach other swimmers I would…
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Wednesday July 18, 2012 It's spectacular, to be sure, but also remarkable for its all-encompassing gloom. No movie has ever administered more punishment, to its hero or its audience, in the name of mainstream entertainment. Joe Morgenstern, WSJ on The Dark Knight Rises In the Spring of 2008 I observed to my classes that the then…
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Monday July 9, 2012 Mayor Bloomberg, after banning cigarete smoking has now declared war on sugar drinks over 16 ounces but not in convenience stores. Go figure. The natives have struck back. Those objecting to this heavy handed approach are canvassing New Yorkers for their opinion on the ban. Governments are trying to micromanage our…
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Monday July 9, 2012 A front page article in the WSJ indicates a new version of Run for Your Life. Run for Your Life was formerly a television show starring Ben Gazzara. Now it is a lively obstacle course. Runners pay $87 to duck and dodge make believe zombies (who pay $25 for the privilege of…
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Thursday May 31, 2012 Check out this essay on the importance of thank you notes. In ACCT 3301 we will be reading about Dr. Deming's Total Quality Management Philosophy. Putting the customer first is one of Deming's BIg Ideas. Clearly the non profits were doing this by telling donors they did not include a gift but…
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Memorial Day Weekend, 2012 The original story of Snow White is a fairly gruesome tale. The sentence meted out to the Evil Queen is Pure Medieval, the Old Testament eye for an eye idea. But in the original story, Snow White is a passive character. She is acted upon by the Evil Queen. It takes an accident…
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Thursday April 19, 2012 Another concept demonstrated at the Socionomic Summit was the application of Text Analytics. One can examine the number of tweets at Twitter for trends in social mood. For exmple, this graph at right illustrates the number of articles discussing a Hard Landing in China. Key words can be examined in both…
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Sunday April 8 2012 If asked, most business students will claim that they would like to make a lot of money. So far I have had zero zip nada success getting either the students or our marketing professors to see the rather obvious link between social mood and marketing success. Here is yet another…
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Sat April 7, 2012 I have mentioned and written about social mood and its affect on society at length. But so far the students have shown little to no interest. Well a chap named Seth Grahame Smith has shown interest, and is about to become well to do as a result. The reading below also…
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