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• Pledging to Put Money Where Mouth Is Yes, I will contribute five dollars each to five podcasters who don’t use paid sponsors. Help show a listener-supported model will work and add your name to the pledge. If you’d rather just support a podcaster, might I recommend: All of us at PodcastMN Croncast Evil Genius Chronicles This Week in Tech
• Pushing the Envelope of Business Requires a Strong Identity “Hardball involves playing the edges, probing that narrow strip of territory—so rich in possibilities—between the places where society clearly says you can play the game of business and those where society clearly says you can’t.” An exerpt from the Harvard Business School’s The Hardball Manifesto. The article’s examples of Hardball companies - Wal-Mart, Southwest Airlines, Toyota
• What if Your Customers Took Over Your Company’s Blog? The Work Better Weblog is 2 years old this month. To celebrate, I’m starting an experiment in multi-author business blogs, community-building, and transparency - each Working Pathways client gets posting access. That’s right - if you’ve hired Working Pathways, you automatically receive a login and password to publish whatever you’d like to the Work Better Weblog.
• Learning from Living Over breakfast this Saturday, my wife and I discussed various home improvement projects for our new place. Very early into the conversation, we realized how little we knew about the house. What’s under the carpet? Can the toilet be moved easily? How long will it take to remove the wallpaper? Answers that can only be found
• Customer in Training While a number of supermarkets and discount stores offer “customer-in-training” shopping cart as their primary method of keeping children occupied while their parents shop, Wegmans - a Woodbridge, N.J. supermarket chain - goes one step further offering W Kids Childcare centers . The videos, toys, and playground equipment found at these centers is part of a