Will Cubicles Make Employees More Honest?
There’s been a trend in offices to get rid of cubicles and instead have an open-floor plan so that employees can easily communicate with each other and not be separated. Some companies do it just to save money. While there are various reasons for not having cubicles, here’s a reason for not getting rid of […]
Do We Need a New Keyboard?
People have been using the Qwerty keyboard (the keyboard you’ve been using on typewriters, your computer, and now your phone) for 100 years, but now there’s a new keyboard in town: the KALQ. According to Natasha Lomas in Techcrunch, this new keyboard will increase the ease and speed of thumb typing, which is […]
Why We Value Fake Followers
There was a Reuters article by Jim Finkle in the Chicago Tribune (though you can read it online at the Toronto Sun’s website) about how you can buy followers on social media. This is not new news, but what surprised me was that fake followers now sell for a higher price than stolen […]
Managing Your Reputation is the New Key to Customer Service
For most of the last century, consumers believed what a company said in its advertisements. A business might hire an advertising agency on Madison Avenue (ala “Mad Men”) to come up with a slick slogan delivered by a celebrity in order to influence what the […]
Guest Post: 2011’s Top Business Model Blunders
Today’s guest post is from Jim Muehlhausen CPA, JD, founder of The Business Model Institute.
Each year, The Business Model Institute polls their readers to find the biggest business model blunder. Here is the 2011 list of business model mistakes: