If you believe that Federal stimulus spending is a good tool to help kickstart our ailing economy, what better way than with a high-speed rail infrastructure project? High speed rail has been talked about for over a generation as a “Good Thing”, but the necessary political and financial conditions have never aligned as well as [...]
The difference between truly standing for something and a mission statement: “Being an opinionated company is great. Great companies have a point of view, not just a product. But there’s a world of difference between truly standing for something and having a mission statement that says you stand for something. You know, those ‘providing the [...]
Pricing can be usable too: “Any time you can take something that’s normally complex for customers and make it a no-brainer, you’re closer to closing the deal.” (Via Signal vs. Noise.)
The convention of influence Some mechanisms that promote a drift away from invention towards convention could include: 1. People ‘sell out’ to become more influential. 2. As people become more influential, they are less interested in offending their new status quo-oriented friends. 3. As people become more influential, their opinion of the status quo rises, [...]