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Leadership is a Funny Thing
Derek Sivers gave a compelling, short, 3 minute talk at the 2010 TED conference about the ‘Dancing Guy’ and Leadership. The point is that every leader needs that 1st follower in order to become an . Otherwise they’re just a ‘dancing guy’ giving passers-by a good chuckle. At CATS, we’ve worked hard to find many [...]
An HR Nightmare: Boozed up Ape
A Friday Funny to get you through the end of the week: Here is an HR nightmare — for a Zoo-Keeper. According to the : “A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday. An ex-performer, Zhora [...]
To Find and Be Found
Search Engine Optimization is the latest ‘must’ in businesses hoping to use the internet to their marketing benefit. SEO consultants are being swooped up left and right. In fact, the reports today that SEOs are in short supply. “It seems the penny’s dropped: more and more companies have realised how important it is to have [...]
Breaking The Rules
What rules will you break? I love this picture for so many reasons, but perhaps the biggest reason I like it is because the bird obviously doesn’t know it’s breaking any rules. Some might say that defeats the purpose or point of the picture: “Real leadership requires a conscious defiance of the rules”, they’ll say. [...]
Have You Seen Recognizr? It’s Seen You…(Video)
It’s one of the coolest advances I’ve seen in social media technology: a program that immediately recognizes who is in the picture you’ve just taken – then posts (if authorized) those pictures to that person’s social media circle. That’s pretty freakin’ cool. On 2 levels: 1. It’s recognizing who is in the picture – which [...]
Pole Dancing: Olympic Sport?
Imagine an employee tells you they’re going to need some time off to participate in the Olympics. “Wow”, you think, “That’s pretty incredible! Take as much time as you need”! Would you think the same thing if that employee was going to participate in “Olympic Pole Dancing”? There is a coming out of England that [...]
Smashing TVs, Walmart, and ABC News (Video)
It’s kind of ironic that I first saw this video online — and not on TV: Westley Strellis didn’t say why he smashed 29 Flat-Screen TVs in a Georgia Walmart. But the more I thought about it, the sheer fact that I first saw this video online makes a tangible point: Online video has — [...]
Visual Reminder: We Are (Sometimes) Smarter Than Our Computers
In a study by Burson-Marsteller — “Global Social Media Check-up” — they found that 65% of Fortune 100 companies are using Twitter, with more than 50% using each Facebook and YouTube. If Facebook were a country, it would be the 4th biggest in the world. YouTube is the 2nd largest search site online. Yet still, [...]
Sarah Palin’s #FF from Ashton Kutcher
Sarah Palin got a #FF (Follow Friday) from Ashton Kutcher. In “Twitter-speak”, that’s essentially what happened in September 2008 when Republican Presidential nominee John McCain tapped her to be his Vice Presidential candidate. Suddenly, Sarah Palin was a household name. At the time, I was working for the Associated Press at the Republican National Convention [...]
Tiger Should Take Responsibility – But Not For Us
The RecruiterGuy had a passionate blog post today titled “”, in which he makes the case that the only apology Tiger owes anyone is to the people involved in his indiscretions (Family, Friends, and however many women were involved). He extrapulates from this that employers who are making the snap decisions on Tiger are the [...]
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