Monthly Archives: January 2009

Design and beauty matter

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Gerard McLean

A couple days ago, I wrote that Seth Godin is a big fat idiot. I still stand by my opinions for the topic that he flung out there with reckless abandon and a lack of respect for the real work … Continue reading →

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Seth Godin is a big fat idiot

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Gerard McLean

Seth Godin wrote this blog post about how now is a good time for all these idle real estate brokers to start a newspaper. In his head, the process is easy; take the number of folks in your office, have them call X people a week, interview them and compile this newspaper of their stories and interesting stuff. As someone who has done this as a hyper-local project with a newspaper and been given the freedom to write anything without seeking permission or editorial review, here are the problems Seth just ain’t seeing. Continue reading →

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Do you know how to do anything?

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Gerard McLean

I keep going back to a moment in my life, 1993 I think it was; the year is not that important. I was the Operations Training Manager at Huffy and we just bought our “new” digital video editing station. It … Continue reading →

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Government should be counter-cyclic to the Main Street marketplace

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Gerard McLean

Originally published at: DogWalkBlog.com   I was listening to NPR on WMUB this morning about the freshman Ohio senators starting their terms and how hard their jobs will be dealing with the State having a $1.9 billion budget deficit, GM, … Continue reading →

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Planning doesn’t matter if you can’t execute at retail

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Gerard McLean

I had to run into a Meijer’s store on a Sunday evening to pick up a few things when the shelf displaying the store-brand ketchup caught my eye. Something wasn’t quite right and I did a double take. Sure enough, … Continue reading →

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