Is Amazon.com evil?

This may be a purely innocent misunderstanding, but I went on to Amazon.com today to try and order a book (that I am going to give away at my upcoming Great Ideas session). The book is several years old. When I searched under the title (Who Really Matters), I got this...

Good Quotes

New blogger Maddie Grant (Ben: too early to start thinking about Rookie of the Year, and other awards?) has two outstanding quotes from her last two posts. One of her own writing and one from another blog. First her own, on the topic of strategic planning:But I fear...

More on PowerPoint

With the recent discussion of the evils of PowerPoint among association bloggers (Mickie, Mickie, and Dave) I thought it was interesting that Seth Godin did a post on his blog recently about how NOT to present data and charts in Powerpoint.

Where Can I Find the "Best Practices" in Business Cliches?

In my “Lessons Learned” post from a few days ago, I buried a link in one of the paragraphs to a cool Squidoo lens that Seth Godin created called the Encyclopedia of Business Cliches (Sue Pelletier pointed to it as well). It lists all those phrases that you hear that...

Who Takes the Credit for the Evaluation Results?

For those of you out there who hire speakers for your events, I found an interesting post by Shel Israel (author, with Robert Scoble, of Naked Conversations) about how HIS success as a keynote speaker was in large part attributable to the way the organization laid the...
Jamie Notter