Lists, Ditches and Blogger’s Block: Great Reading

On March 10, 2009, in Weekend Reading, by Brett Duncan

OK, I haven’t passed along some great links in a LONG time, so here’s to catching up. This stuff is really, really good.

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A Modern Parable: Ford and Toyota

On November 27, 2008, in Funny stuff, by Brett Duncan

I just got this in my inbox and thought I’d share. I don’t know if this is the origin of it, but it’s the top link in the Google Search.  Happy Thanksgiving! – The Management.  A Modern Parable. A Japanese company ( Toyota ) and an American  company (Ford Motor) decided to have a canoe [...]

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Recession Marketing, Super Bowl Ads and Lesssons in Forgiveness

On February 11, 2008, in Weekend Reading, by Brett

Excellent weekend of reading – enjoy Healing and Mercy: This is an excellently written story of a high school girl who was raped in 1989 and how she’s coped with it since and managed to find forgiveness and mercy. This happened in my home town when I was in middle school, so it definitely h [...]

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The Best 9 Blog Posts I Read All Weekend

On January 14, 2008, in Weekend Reading, by Brett

Enjoy this week’s version of Weekend Reading: 20 Reasons Why Corporate Sucks: This is a pretty complete list. My favorite is the commentary on sick days. The Power of “I Don’t Know”: Why does it feel like we’re failing when we admit we don’t know something? As this post explains, there’s actually more power in [...]

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Viva Viagra?

On November 14, 2007, in advertising, by Brett

Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with the corniest commercial of the year: Nothing manlier than sitting in a shed with a bunch of guys singing about what I need to put more lead in my pencil. As of this post, the different variations of the ad have been viewed more than 200,000, and obviously [...]

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