If you want to craft a delightful marketing experience and you’re using popups, you need to make sure you hold them to the same high standards as the content they are covering up. You can learn a lot by looking at bad website popup examples. Once you understand what not to do, you’ll default to […]
What does it take to make a great leader? This can come from the world of politics, the world of business, within a nonprofit organization, in a greater societal movement, or within a more academic environment. What does it take? Some people will say that great leaders should inspire those around them, lighting a fire
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Let me count the ways. The sublime offerings of Dumon in Bruges. Any time. The carnal necessity of Milk Tray at Christmas. (Even if the current owners have messed with the taste a little.) And then there’s the stuff
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Facebook recently admitted what a lot of people have long suspected—that social media can be bad for you. It’s a ballsy move, considering that Mark Zuckerberg and company have built an empire based on the largest social media platform in the world. Facebook has acknowledged that too much social media can be damaging to people’s
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Bosses have unique power in the world. Their ability to uplift or destroy invades every aspect of your working life, and can even bleed into your private life. The best bosses know how to harness this power for good, challenging where they must and encouraging where they can. Good bosses empower their employees and help
Groping, sexist comments, sexual harassment: The allegations are not new. If the name Anita Hill doesn’t ring a bell, I’ll wait while you Google. But 2017 was different. Maybe it’s the fact that Donald Trump was caught on tape bragging about assaulting women, and went on to become President anyways. Maybe it was the Women’s
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You should know that I rarely choose to use the privilege of your attention to bark at companies that rub me the wrong way, but when Jacqueline told me about her GoDaddy problem, I knew that I had to lay it all out in a post and get loud about it. While the problem is
Check this out: almost 27,000 reviews are posted to Yelp every minute. Not every day, not every week – every, single minute. That’s a whole lot of people talking about a business – whether or not the business knows about it. Now compound that number with the fact that, today, 88% of people trust reviews
There is a trait that neuroscientist and TED India speaker Vilayanur Ramachandran believes is fundamental to what made human civilization possible by enabling us to learn the complex social behaviors needed to produce civilization, itself. Powerful stuff. These relatively recently discovered neurons are called “mirror neurons” and they are what instill in us the trait
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“Have a Bad Day Day”—yes, it really is a thing—falls on the 19th of November each year. While this “holiday” has its origins in good humor, some negative people seem to purposefully set out to make days unbearable for the people around them on any given date. And sometimes, we even get in our own
