First Mover Advantage

Like new product development, Corporate Social Responsibility and Aid must be considered as a first mover advantage. People associate with those organisations who are doing it first, and that association builds brand reputation and sales over those who are simply followers.

More BS Bingo Offerings

Heard these at a management conference recently

Engagement
Stimulate
Outreach potential
Touched by the subjects
Internal happiness
We are going to hold a boot camp .... at the end of the training
We have lost the value with the bath water
Good advice is in the sunlight
Continuity of excellence

Thought for the day

'You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come' Victor Hugo

Quote of the Day

"Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees. Get on with it and see if it works." - F. Kenneth Iverson, U.S. Industrialist

A good rule to live by

To get something you've never had, you must do something you've never done! (author unknown)

Reconsidering our language

Its about time we reconsidered our language to deliver a clear requirement to all.

For example, a recent job advertisement calling for an Administration Assistant / Receptionist / Business Development Manager, is this because we don't know what we are looking for or because it gives us a chance to shout at the "help" when sales are low because they are answering the phone and doing the photocopying?

Thought for the day

Why is it you get engineering failures and scientific successes?