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This too shall pass

Posted by Mark on Thursday, March 11th, 2010. Filed under Film/Movies, Fresh Ideas, Online video, Web.

First I heard about it on NPR. Then a post on Fast Company's daily. Finally, when I got ...

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Introducing Square

Posted by Mark on Thursday, February 11th, 2010. Filed under Digital lifestyle, Fresh Ideas.

"Anyone can make something more complex. The best minds make it simple." It is with these words that I introduce ...

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The new way of business

Posted by Mark on Sunday, December 13th, 2009. Filed under Advertising, Burris, Economy, Fresh Ideas, Managing.

More imagination, fewer resources and assets. That's the way of doing business now. Thomas Friedman's column - ...

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New approach to SI.com

Posted by Mark on Friday, December 11th, 2009. Filed under Advertising, Digital lifestyle, Fresh Ideas.

Bill Bryant made me aware of this presentation. There's a lot of this going on, and it's exciting stuff. ...

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Introducing Fitbit. Now wait your turn.

Posted by Mark on Friday, December 11th, 2009. Filed under Branding, Design, Digital lifestyle, Fresh Ideas.

We're working with two clients these days who are developing technology plays, solid, well planned, big ideas that will be ...

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Utility vehicles – here they come

Posted by Mark on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009. Filed under Environment, Fresh Ideas, Living.

Love this video from Wendy Brooks at the WSJ:...

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Shifting the ground to change the competitive game

Posted by Mark on Friday, October 30th, 2009. Filed under Branding, Fresh Ideas, Managing.

"The gap between the existing and the new has to be so materially better that it shocks you into a ...

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Manspaces

Posted by Mark on Sunday, October 11th, 2009. Filed under Fresh Ideas.

A neighbor here on Seagrass Lane has just completed his self-described "man-cave." I'd never heard of such a thing (and ...

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Can Penske get it right with Saturn?

Posted by Mark on Sunday, September 20th, 2009. Filed under Branding, Fresh Ideas.

I was smitten with the dealer behavior model at the early Saturn. From the Spring Hill, TN, manufacturing philosophy to ...

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“The Netflix of cars”?

Posted by Mark on Saturday, September 5th, 2009. Filed under Environment, Fresh Ideas, Living.

Back to my reading last night, and this article in Fortune (The Best New Idea ...

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