This is Paddy Ashdown, one of the most amazing individuals in the world when it comes to foreign policy.
Don’t believe me? watch this video… and if you are a Ron Paul supporter, definitely watch this video.
“Golden Rules” only work in theory.
How To Network Across Cultures
Great stuff from Andy Molinsky, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Brandeis International Business School.
Picture this: You are at a networking event and see across the room a potential employer from a company you’re interested in. You walk over to that person, look him in the eye, and say the following:
“Hello, I noticed that you’re from IBM. I’m very interested in IBM and would love to give you a sense of my background.”
I recently posed this scenario to a group of foreign-born professionals in the United States and then asked whether they believed that according to American cultural norms, the person’s statement was:
(a) Too direct
(b) Not direct enough
(c) Appropriately direct
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The 10 most promising products of the coming year, as revealed at CES
(by venturebeat.com)
okay…
I see your Helvetica and raise you Paul Renner’s symmetrically perfect FUTURA.
I wonder what Mr. Paul Romer thinks about this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/business/global/28iht-RBOG-SOLAR28.html
Guess who is coming to an Android store near you?
sorry PicPlz, but you had your chance…
and you blew it!
It seems like every time Reed Hastings steps up to the podium (be it an actual podium or his blog) something bad happens for Netflix.
So why is he still talking?
To actually think that his direct competition is really HBO and not Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc… is ridiculous!
You are telling me that becoming more like HBO and producing your own original content for exclusive streaming is the direction of this company?
Has he not learned anything yet?
My advice to Mr. Hastings is to stick to what this company knows and does best for now until it rebuilds some credibility with the public.
This doesn’t mean stop trying to innovate by any means, it simply means stop coming out of the gate apologizing for being “overconfident” only to make statements that present you and your company as… well overconfident.
And lets keep it real here, to think that “House of Cards” and “Arrested Development” are the ticket to turning this company around is preposterous.
HBO, Showtime, AMC, they have original content year round. Shows that are established with the masses WAY before it hits the Netflix public, in fact its that same credibility that makes it such a hit on Netflix?!?
How is this guy still the CEO?
Zynga is just days away from going public.
If you haven’t considered selling your home, your car, and possibly one of your children to purchase a couple of thousand shares of this sock… well than, you are not thinking like Millionaire.
With shares expected to start around $8-$10, you should be in a great position come the end of the 3rd Quarter 2012.
Having worked with a number of these fine people (and the people mentioned in Part 1) I can say that this depiction is entirely accurate.
