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recent bookmarks from jerrykingOpinion: Pierre Poilievre’s dominant win is the death knell of moderate conservatism in Canada - The Globe and Mail2022-09-11T16:46:26+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-pierre-poilievres-dominant-win-is-the-death-knell-of-moderate/
jerrykingAndrew_Scheer authenticity centre-right centrism Conservative_Party Erin_O'Toole GTA Justin_Trudeau leaders leadership_races Pierre_Poilievrehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:a875d3365da4/The Conservatives need an affable, relatable new leader more than a right-wing one2022-02-04T10:56:43+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/f61e4d101b4f91fb50de
jerrykingAndrew_Scheer authenticity centre-right centrism Conservative_Party Erin_O'Toole GTA Justin_Trudeau leaders Pierre_Poilievre Robyn_Urback suburbanhttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:1fe1777a7ffc/André De Shields, Actor - Brief but Spectacular | PBS NewsHour2021-12-06T00:13:12+00:00
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/397241/andre-de-shields
jerrykingactors African-Americans authenticity awards black_men Broadway education late_bloomers PBS personal_success theatre watch_the_enemyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:26dcb060d630/Point of order! The use and abuse of debating2021-05-06T12:39:22+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/37a43606-79ac-4ac4-ab68-f1cd66822b94
jerryking>opposing views<< presented seriously and in their own words. Instead we pick who to follow on social media, which websites to visit and which TV channels to watch. If we are not careful, all we will see of the >>opposing viewpoint<< are quotes carefully selected for mockery.
The advantage of a format in which both sides and all speakers have equal time is not lightly to be dismissed. But debating is a package deal, and along with those merits come some serious downsides.
Competitive debating largely ignores the meta-debate of what motion should be debated....[having the power to frame the very question to be discussed influences the answer set] but simply asking the question has implications for what answers are reasonable.
Debating also feeds some of our less admirable urges. It sometimes pretends to be a search for the truth, but the real goal is not truth but victory......On the topic of disagreement. Julia Galef’s The Scout Mindset argues that we can deploy our mental faculties as “soldiers” or as “scouts”. Soldiers aim to defend a position; scouts aim to map out the landscape and discover things.[i.e. = "self-navigating"/"sense-making"] Galef believes, plausibly, that we should spend more time reasoning like scouts, but the very structure of debating requires that we reason like soldiers.
Ian Leslie’s Conflicted celebrates the virtues of **productive disagreement**, while admitting that plenty of disagreement is not productive at all.
Leslie notes that “disagreements become toxic when they become status battles”. True enough, and a competitive debate is a pure status battle. In an ideal world, our goal is the truth [i.e. = "truth-seeking"] and disagreement is merely a means to that end. In the reality of competitive debating, the truth is irrelevant. Disagreement itself is what matters: someone must lose and someone else must win. That is why so much competitive debating turns on flourishes of rhetorical skill, quick-witted put-downs and playing to the gallery.
The social psychologist Charlan Nemeth....argues that authentic dissent punctures groupthink and exposes organisational blind spots. But she suggests that there is little benefit in “playing Devil’s advocate” if everyone knows that the disagreement is just for show.
Authentic dissent, says Nemeth, requires someone to stick their neck out and risk opprobrium. Authentic dissent requires courage, or at least stubbornness [i.e.= willingness to be a "misfit" or "troublemaker"] The group benefits from the challenge to its thinking, but the dissenter often pays a price.
]]>argumentation Communicating_&_Connecting conversations debates disagreements howto logic_&_reasoning questions rhetoric Tim_Harford abuses asking_the_right_questions authenticity books courage dissension downside groupthink power_structures problem_framing stubbornness troublemakers blind_spots Devil’s_advocates misfits Charlan_Nemeth truth-seeking productive_disagreement Julia_Galef self-navigating sense-making opprobrium opposing_viewpointshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e301dfa17c0d/Essentialism and Why Less Is More - Friday Forward (#244)2021-01-02T20:40:03+00:00
https://www.robertglazer.com/friday-forward/essentialism-greg-mckeown/
jerryking>false assumptions<< with three core truths:
* “I have to,” becomes “I choose to.”
* “It’s all important,” becomes “Only a few things really matter.”
* “I can do both,” becomes “I can do anything but not everything.”
COVID-19 has brought about one of the largest global experiments in essentialism ever enacted. ]]>authenticity books family Pareto_principle presence priorities quotes values what_really_matters Robert_Glazer busy_work Greg_McKeown less_is_more capped_priorities COVID-19 essentials inner_circle false_assumptionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:847b98fe3692/Don't Let Your Narrative Change the Truth - Friday Forward (#255)2020-11-20T17:32:37+00:00
https://www.robertglazer.com/friday-forward/myth-making/
jerrykingauthenticity biographies chance critical_thinking embellishments humility JFK luck lying memories myths narratives quotes Robert_Glazer self-delusions self-reckoning storytelling timing truth-telling vulnerabilities myth-making false_claims unvarnished self-perceptionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:053ef0d00e5d/Zoom heralds digital judgment day for religion2020-09-22T17:27:50+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/5c5034ba-7c71-48f9-b666-ab093ce8e448
jerryking>mismatch<< [i.e. = "discrepancies"] between spiritual demand and religious supply++, he contends....Rabbis Spratt and Stanton argue that allowing >>out-of-touch<< institutions to fold [i.e. = "creative destruction"] is precisely what is needed for a spiritual revival. This will make way for groups that can better respond to what the UK’s former chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, called “the moment of all moments for faith communities”. .........A rising number of people who have logged into virtual services over recent six months while searching for outlets that resonate, untethered by geography. One report found that a third of practising US Christians “church-hopped” during the pandemic’s early months. Rabbi Stanton’s community now has regular members from San Francisco and Seattle, and Rabbi Spratt has had pastoral conversations with people as far afield as Florida and Ireland..............Covid-19 is creating “a winner takes all marketplace” in religion in which a few dozen houses of worship stand to achieve national or international reach while life gets harder for the rest, ......That would echo what internet economics have done to newspapers and many other industries. It is risky to extrapolate from pandemic behaviour but, if the analysis is right, religion in the US could be on the brink of its biggest technology-induced change since the deregulation of broadcast networks in the 1960s gave televangelists such as Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell Sr national pulpits.
........ today’s seekers are looking for something different. “People are searching for authenticity at a time of radical technological change and social unrest. They’re not looking for fancy outfits and slicked-back hair — and they’re not looking for just older white men,”
.......Today’s houses of worship are under pressure to offer humility, transparency and “dynamic dialogue” rather than thinking that just moving their traditional product online will be enough. After all, Rabbi Spratt notes, “We’re not going to be able to compete with Hamilton on Disney+”.
]]>accelerated_lifecycles authenticity barbell_effect churches Covid-19 economic_stimulus humility meditation pandemics plagues rapid_change religion spiritual_crisis store_closings synagogues technological_change time-travel transparency trends wellness winner-take-all yoga Zoom digital_strategies post-coronavirus_era discrepancies meaning meaningful_lives mismatches under_pressure creative_destruction out-of-touchhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:45478b2d10c5/In Crisis, Focus on Helping Others Downstream - Friday Forward (#220)2020-04-22T21:20:39+00:00
https://www.robertglazer.com/friday-forward/thinking-downstream/
jerrykingauthenticity COVID-19 crisis downstream inspiration generosity handwritten hard_times mindsets pay_it_forward productivity purpose serving_others span_of_control long-termhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:864cf1575693/Notes on Personal Branding Webinar by Phil Pallen--Western University sponsored webinar2020-03-24T19:32:59+00:00
https://notes.pinboard.in/u:jerryking/6ae4282adf106c0ec21c
jerrykingauthenticity digital_influencers Evernote Gary_Vaynerchuk gurus howto Instagram monetization passions personal_branding photography social_media tools UWO value_propositions visual_culture webinars alumni Phil_Pallenhttps://notes.pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:928d50e17133/Opinion | Lessons From My Grandma on Art, Sex and Life2020-03-22T04:41:44+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/opinion/sunday/annette-nancarrow-art-mexico.html?action=click&module=moreIn&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article®ion=Footer&contentCollection=Nicholas%20Kristof
jerrykingart art_appreciation artists authenticity bohemians Bret_Stephens cosmopolitan creative_types creative_class fearlessness free-spirits Mexico origin_story paintings portraiture resourcefulness restlessness risk-taking sexuality transgressiveness tributes venturesome women self-determinationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:efa8fbe0e16b/Why People Ghost — and How to Get Over It - The New York Times2019-02-01T16:29:38+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/smarter-living/why-people-ghost-and-how-to-get-over-it.html?fallback=0&recId=1GaHHqQVIQOVjj1zba28wAJjdr2&locked=0&geoContinent=NA&geoRegion=ON&recAlloc=home-geo&geoCountry=CA&blockId=home-living-vi&imp_id=825339979&action=click&module=Smarter%20Living&pgtype=Homepage
jerrykingavoidance blindsided breakups Communicating_&_Connecting dating discomforts exits friendships ghosting relationships self-esteem self-worth personal_connections belief_systems say_"no" clarity authenticity intimacy self-discovery toxic_behaviors emotional_discomfort conflict_avoidancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:f9572d8534b3/How Financial Products Drive Today’s Art World2018-07-24T01:41:31+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/arts/blockchain-fintech-art-funds.html
jerrykingart artists art_advisory art_authentication art_finance auctions authenticity best_of blockchain blue-chips books collectors conferences contemporary_art digital_artifacts end_of_ownership fin-tech investing investors opacity post-WWII provenance scarcity tokenization collectibles replication alternative_investments crypto-currencies digital_currencies currencies virtual_currencies metacurrencies art_market fractional_ownership primers game_changers record-keeping Christie’shttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:3ae915c63cc4/7 Closing Strategies to Double Your Average Sale Size2017-08-29T23:19:28+00:00
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/293020
jerryking>Stand apart from the crowd<<.[i.e. = standing out from the crowd"]
High-level prospects hear from an average of 10 salespeople every day. If you do what everyone else is doing, you’ll never get through to them or earn their trust. To double your average sales size, you must be intentional about standing apart from the crowd in your industry. While others pitch, you should ask questions. While others are enthusiastic, you should be low-key and genuine. While your competitors focus on their products, you should focus on your prospect’s deepest frustrations and show how you can solve them.
3. Stop selling to low-level prospects.
Selling low-level prospects harms your close rate and decreasing your average sale size. Low-level prospects simply don’t have the power or budget to tell you “yes." They’re not the decision-makers. If you want to increase the size of your sales, stop selling to prospects who lack the budget to invest in your solution.
4. Sell to decision-makers.
It’s a best practice to head straight to the top of the food chain and sell to directors, vice presidents, and C-level executives. They have the power and budget to say “yes” to your offer. If someone refers you back down the chain, you’re still landing an introduction to the right person -- by his or her boss, no less.
5. Stop cold-calling.
Cold calls are miserable. Try implementing a sales-prospecting campaign. Plan your calls, letters and emails as follow-ups to a valuable letter or package you send via FedEx. This could be a special report, unique sample or company analysis. These intentional, repeated touches over a series of months will set you up as a familiar name by the time you actually get your prospect on the phone. When a huge sale is on the line, you can afford to invest time and money to catch a single prospect’s attention.
6. Know the decision-making process.
If you’ve closed only small deals at small companies in the past, you might be accustomed to working with just one or two decision-makers at a time. In large corporations, the decision-making process can be much more complicated. One of the biggest mistakes salespeople make is failing to understand the decision-making process. Get a grasp of this early on, and you can stay in front of the right people, build value for them and close your sales at higher prices.
7. Leverage sales for introductions.
When you close one large sale at a big organization, don’t stop there. Ask new customers for introductions to others in their company or network who could benefit from your offering. You have nothing to lose by asking for introductions, but failure to do so will cost you massive opportunity and revenue.]]>sales fear large_companies differentiation sales_cycle buyer_choice_rejection cold_calling referrals JCK executive_management campaigns Aimia LBMA strategic_thinking close_rate questions thinking_big enterprise_clients C-suite low-key authenticity doubling the_right_people Gulliver_strategies rejections prospecting standing_out_from_the_crowdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:20a0a5e8d59e/Unless You’re Oprah, ‘Be Yourself’ Is Terrible Advice. - The New York Times2017-02-09T04:15:54+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/opinion/sunday/unless-youre-oprah-be-yourself-is-terrible-advice.html?_r=0
jerrykingauthenticity sincerity advice truth-telling effectiveness Adam_Granthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:fee674b537d2/How to garner goodwill and respect | Financial Post2017-01-31T18:14:58+00:00
http://business.financialpost.com/entrepreneur/how-to-garner-goodwill-and-respect
jerryking>Be memorable<<. [i.e. = "standing out from the crowd"] At least, don’t be boring. Do something >>unexpected<<. Bring an unlikely prop, share a secret, describe how your company changed people’s lives, or **ask the audience to take action**. Leave people with one compelling idea or vision they’ll be talking about long after you sit down.[i.e. = "leave behinds"]
7. Practise, practise. Read your presentation repeatedly until you are so familiar with it you don’t need your notes.
If you finish early, ask for questions from the floor. Prepare an initial question or two of your own, in case your audience is shy (otherwise, this could be longest minute of your life). You might say, “What I’d be asking me right now is this — ” Follow it with a question that allows you to repeat your theme, with some new “inside” information that enhances it.
Be spontaneous, but never unprepared.]]>goodwill respect public_speaking conferences preparation Communicating_&_Connecting Rick_Spence authenticity know_your_audience clarity concision unprepared spontaneity RetailLoco_2017 speeches readiness storytelling visual_culture bragging_rights presentations self-promotion humble-brag leave_behinds memorableness standing_out_from_the_crowd call_to_action unexpected death_by_PowerPoint what_are_you_solving_for?https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:7ca289f99c90/Gord Downie’s Canada: Barstool bard has a lasting legacy of enigmatic erudition - The Globe and Mail2016-05-25T03:52:11+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/canadas-barstool-bard-has-a-lasting-legacy-of-enigmatic-erudition/article30124384/
jerrykingBrad_Wheeler music cancers Canadiana Canadian songwriters singers legacies patriotism authenticity Tragically_Hip poets rock-'n'-roll Gord_Downie eruditionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:38d9f72e0cd3/Life’s Work2016-04-19T16:27:53+00:00
https://www.evernote.com/Home.action#n=8fa59a93-e494-4e43-aafb-adc1db8aab84&ses=4&sh=2&sds=5&
jerrykingHBR Brian_Grazer curiosity storytelling films movies ideas idea_generation Hollywood books Communicating_&_Connecting self-actualization creativity creative_renewal studios producers questions originality perspectives authenticity pitches independent_viewpoints creating_valuable_content personal_accomplishments Lew_Wassermanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:42fb1243117c/We’re not used to a prime minister who tells us how he feels - The Globe and Mail2016-01-08T03:42:06+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/were-not-used-to-a-prime-minister-who-tells-us-how-he-feels/article27982382/
jerrykingBruce_Anderson Justin_Trudeau authenticity leadership politicians unconventional prime_ministershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d4f4000f7fb8/Don’t sell a brand. Tell a story - The Globe and Mail2015-03-18T00:57:29+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/management/dont-sell-a-brand-tell-a-story/article23411833/
jerrykingHarvey_Schachter branding brands storytelling 19th_century authenticity Bloomberg Burberry craftsmanship emotional_connections immersive music RFID soul-enriching whispering Joseph_Pine James_Gilmore experience_economy fascinationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:97596dddde03/WWE champ, fitness goddess Trish Stratus shares how she kicks butt - The Globe and Mail2014-09-21T22:12:57+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/fitness/wwe-champ-fitness-goddess-trish-stratus-shares-her-secrets-to-kicking-butt/article20704985/#dashboard/follows/
jerrykingfitness women hotties lessons_learned models mentoring opportunities journaling mindfulness inspiration self-awareness authenticity preparation yoga disconnecting personal_energy setbacks lists hard_work calm To-Do readiness note_taking de-stressinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:37d87ca831c8/Casual-chic workaholic strives for authenticity at helm of Canada Goose - The Globe and Mail2014-08-12T08:56:20+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/careers/careers-leadership/casual-chic-workaholic-strives-for-authenticity-at-helm-of-canada-goose/article19971607/?page=all
jerrykingCanada_Goose retailers CEOs Marina_Strauss luxury branding authenticityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:261d6ef453e5/Relax2014-08-04T14:10:48+00:00
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LRrJEENx8cshq4OzcrwO4g8-B7srA_TdbxWTUiYoxNI/edit
jerrykingmotivations inspiration strengths affirmations personal_growth self-improvement immediacy simplicity focus movingonup gift_ideas listening continuous_learning humility praise relationships overdeliver gratitude sincerity authenticity self-awareness constructive_criticism values self-starters healthy_lifestyles gossip self-analysis self-assessment self-satisfaction complacency personal_energy span_of_control disconnecting rainmaking individual_initiative beyond_one's_control next_play walking_away over-commitment change_agents disagreeableness forgiveness critical_detachment self-appraisal self-challenge show_don't_tell active_listeninghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:01a95063f545/Perky Tits Do Not An Erotic Woman Make2014-05-27T11:26:51+00:00
http://torontostandard.com/style/perky-tits-do-not-an-erotic-woman-make/
jerrykingwomen aging erotic self-confidence authenticityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:6d83e05e21ff/When Diamonds Are Dirt Cheap, Will They Still Dazzle? - NYTimes.com2014-04-20T12:24:15+00:00
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/business/when-diamonds-are-dirt-cheap-will-they-still-dazzle.html?_r=0
jerryking>replicas<< of once rare and expensive things.
That’s true, for example, of diamonds and >>paintings<<. Renowned art originals will always be scarce, and so will high-quality mined diamonds, at least while De Beers holds sway. But what will happen to the lofty prices of such goods if there is an inexhaustible supply of inexpensive perfect copies? >>Economic reasoning<< can help answer this question. It can also shed light on how new technologies might alter traditional ways in which people demonstrate their wealth to others, or might change what society embraces as tokens of commitment and other gifts....Not even perfect replicas, however, will extinguish >>strong preferences<< for original paintings and mined diamonds. In the short run, price premiums for such goods are likely to persist, as >>collectors<< scramble for certificates of >>authenticity<<.
Longer term, those premiums may prove fragile...Tumbling prices will transform many long-standing social customs. An engagement diamond, for instance, will lose its power as a token of commitment once flawless two-carat stones can be had for only $25.
Replication technologies also raise philosophical questions about where value resides....Technology won’t eliminate our need for suitable gifts and tokens of commitment, of course. And such things will still need to be both **intrinsically pleasing** and genuinely >>scarce<<. But technology will change where those qualities reside.
]]>art valuations replication collectibles artifacts collectors authenticity inexpensive De_Beers scarcity digital_artifacts high-quality paintings strong_preferences atelic_activities economic_reasonshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:808ffce90f26/Ten habits of the world’s best connection makers - The Globe and Mail2014-01-10T13:23:48+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-tools/top-tens/ten-habits-of-the-worlds-best-connection-makers/article16206144/#dashboard/follows/
jerrykingnetworking serving_others Communicating_&_Connecting authenticity conversations friendships self-awareness attention pay_attention habits people_skills super_connectors personal_connections illuminatorshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:9d9eaa3c095b/Africa's Malaria Battle: Fake Drug Pipeline Undercuts Progress2013-05-29T13:28:05+00:00
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324474004578444942841728204.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories#articleTabs_comments%3D%26articleTabs%3Darticle
jerrykingmalaria Africa China counterfeits Angola Congo Novartis Luanda drugs pharmaceutical_industry authenticityhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:cc43cf40385c/Doug Saunders: Killer quinoa? Time to debunk these urban food myths - The Globe and Mail2013-02-10T15:59:59+00:00
http://m.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/doug-saunders-killer-quinoa-time-to-debunk-these-urban-food-myths/article7536845/?service=mobile
jerrykingquinoa Doug_Saunders myths food fallacies_follies authenticity exploitation locavorehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:c5e7ed4cfd97/You Should Have Asked - The Art of Powerful Conversation2012-11-22T12:14:57+00:00
http://www.stuartknightproductions.com/book/
jerryking>memorable<< to that person.
(5) Make yourself likeable and have fun.
ENTER STAGE LEFT:PART TWO QUESTIONING
Part Two Questioning
is the quickest way to get to the core of who a person truly is.It’s the easiest and one of the most effective things you can do to create powerful conversations. Are you ready for the secret? All you have to do is ask questions on the answers you have just been given.
These questions are normal and in fact I use them myself to start a conversation. The problem arrives about one second after the person has answered the Stock Question. After asking a Stock Question, most people make one of two mistakes. The first mistake made is they ask a mediocre follow-up question. The second mistake made is they ask a brand new question entirely.The **smallest shift** can make the biggest difference. Talk to women about the female orgasm and they will confirm this to be true!
]]>conversations Communicating_&_Connecting questions quizzes second-order small_talk 5_W’s Stuart_Knight small_moves mistakes follow-up_questions authenticity vulnerabilities memorableness question-askers small_differenceshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:73ebe64af098/New Year's Resolution 20022012-08-23T14:45:32+00:00
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iipOfiP2__BX5dUNmU_AsTeHl4-8Z_4TwWP9yXH1MzE/edit
jerryking change strategy ==> succeed because they are >>subversive<<. Be a >>heretic<inspiration motivations fitness indispensable serving_others value_creation resolutions unconventional_thinking JCK affirmations optimism authenticity generosity Communicating_&_Connecting subversion purpose networking personal_energy heretical self-determination creative_renewalhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:8cb1a51e0356/Making Sense of Ambiguous Evidence2012-08-23T02:21:29+00:00
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8QqaQt_ecJlZE5sUGRGSVhzdHM/edit
jerryking>unfiltered<<. Unpopular opinions are censored. Partisan views are veiled as objective arguments. Honest mistakes are made. The manager is then left to sort it all out and come to a wise conclusion.
Few people know how to get an accurate read on a situation like documentarian Errol Morris. He is the award-winning director of such films as 'The Thin Blue Line' and this year’s 'Standard Operating Procedure', an exploration of the elusive truth behind the infamous photographs taken at Abu Ghraib prison. The Guardian has ranked him among the world’s top 10 directors, crediting him with “a **forensic mind**” and “a painter’s eye.” [i.e. = " it’s a consolidated way of looking at all the compositional elements and decisions that we employ when framing up our photographs. It’s a way of taking everything we’ve learned about composition and simplifying it down to one core philosophical idea, which is to: FIND THE PAINTING IN THINGS" or "finding questions that make the world interesting"]
In this article, Morris talks with HBR’s Lisa Burrell about how he sorts through ambiguous evidence and contradictory views to arrive at the real story. “I don’t believe in the postmodern notion that there are different kinds of truth,” he says. “There is one >>objective reality<<, period.”[i.e. = "ground truths"] Getting to it requires keeping your **mind open** to all kinds of **evidence**—not just the parts that fit with your >>first impressions<< or developing opinions—and, often, far more investigation than one would think.
If finding the truth is a matter of perseverance, convincing people of it [i.e. = "persuasion"] is something of an art, one with which Morris has had much experience not only as a documentarian but also as a highly sought-after director of **TV ads** for companies like Apple, Citibank, Adidas, and Toyota. He holds up **John Kerry’s** 2004 bid for the U.S. presidency as a >>cautionary tale<<: Kerry struck voters as **inauthentic** when he emphasized only his military service and failed to account for his subsequent war protest. Morris would have liked to interview him speaking in his own words—natural, unscripted material—so that his humanity, which seemed to get lost in the campaign, could emerge.
]]>HBR executive_management CEOs contradictions information information_flows information_gaps authenticity sense-making ambiguities uncertainty persuasion forensics postmodern filmmakers documentaries judgment cautionary_tales anecdotal objective_reality evidence-based John_Kerry advertising find_questions_that_make_the_world_interesting ground_truths open_mind unfiltered up_the_chain first_impressionshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:d7d556b09a27/Segmentation - Back to School: Connecting With College Students :2012-07-08T18:59:02+00:00
http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/hogeboom1.asp
jerryking>street-cred<<" among the student market, and thus share in their emotional appeal.
* Tap into students' **emotional needs** for empowerment, privilege, and status: College students are attracted to goods and services that empower them as consumers and individuals. Examples include the Internet, mobile phones, MP3 players, online file sharing and credit cards. Additionally, products and services that enhance social status are successful at winning students over.
* Don't try too hard to win students over: College students greet most product claims with skepticism. Students are aware that they are a highly desirable market. They don't want to be overtly sold or pitched. Instead, they simply want to be educated about products and services and told how the offering matches their >>unique needs<<.
* Reach students at key transitional periods: At certain transitional periods, college students exhibit a need for certain products and services. It's a marketer's job to reach students at these points of need. Key transitional periods for college students include the beginning of freshman year, summer breaks, moving to off-campus living, studying abroad and graduation.
* Become an authentic brand: Ad-weary and marketing-savvy college students value authentic brands. Authentic brands exhibit the following characteristics:
• They develop trust among potential customers—trust is the foundation of brand authenticity.
• They are perceived as not trying too hard to sell or actively win customers over.
• They continually deliver value and convince students that they have students' best interests at heart.
Play-it-straight: College students immediately sense hype and do not accept brands that they consider fake.
Read more: http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/hogeboom1.asp#ixzz203iwNgRt
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