Culture

It's become fashionable nowadays to depart (or get fired from) Microsoft after which write a tell-all blog about how exactly crummy the Microsoft culture is.The most recent comes from Max Zachariades, who spent 5 years like a Microsoft EMEA Manager, before he was proven the doorway, he described inside a blog on TechCrunch. (Zachariades creates underneath the pen title Max Zografos.)He was fired, he states, while he were not impressed with a lot of conferences, he stated:"Microsoft culture needs you to

SAP's co-Boss Bill McDermott has produced a pressure-oven culture for that company's salesforce, based on an insider.The organization is really centered on short-term quarterly sales targets it fired Robert Courteau, president from the North America region, because The United States skipped one quarter's goal, a resource near to the organization told Business Insider.In the preliminary questionnaire, SAP stated that software revenue for that Americas region was &euro236 million, a loss of

Today, the near future is portrayed in popular culture like a dystopian nightmare of zombies, killer robots and reality Television shows where children battle to the dying.It wasn't always so. In early twentieth century, the near future was regarded as with optimism and hope.The Bohn Aluminum &lifier Brass Company created a large number of advanced advertisements within the nineteen forties, each one of these marketing the concept technology would transport us right into a society of ease and leisure

Last week I talked about how marketers should leverage culture to promote brands. Today I would like to talk about why we also can (and should) change culture. As I watched the video above I couldn’t help but ask myself, “Is marketing changing culture? Or is culture changing marketing?” Or in other words, are these ads changing our perception of beauty or is our perception of beauty changing the ads? I still don’t have the answer, but maybe it;s a little bit of both.

Over the last two weeks I’ve been lucky enough to have some time away with my family in Singapore and Indonesia. With our 3rd child arriving in early July it was our babymoon and a last chance to get away with our two little guys for a bit. The bulk of our time was spent on Bintan Island (Indonesia) where we stayed at Club Med Bintan (note: the pics in this post are all iPhone shots I took at the resort over the week) – a resort which had been recommended by a couple of friends.

Outside of the Yankees during playoff season,  I find nothing incites my competitive juices like reality television. I’ve been in an American Idol fantasy draft, I’m on the edge of my seat for The Amazing Race, and I’m still bitter over Boston Rob’s early exit on the most recent season of Survivor.  However, minute for minute, no program compares to So You Think You Can Dance simply for the way it combines artistry, entertainment, athleticism, public judging, and public voting.