by | Thursday | Business Strategy, Leadership
From Wired: How Yahoo Blew It.Talks about how Yahoo! offered to buy Google in 2002 and how things have changed since. If you regularly read this blog, you know I have Semel as one of the Five CEOs that Must Go so this merely adds fuel to that fire. I still believe...
by | Monday | Customer Service, Louisville, rant, Word of Mouth
Yesterday, I noticed a television ad for a local Tex-Mex chain named Tumbleweed that is based here in Louisville promoting a website (Tell Terry What You Think) to tell their CEO (Terry Smith) what you think. A couple of months ago, I had a rotten experience in one of...
by | Monday | Bobby Petrino, Business Opinion, Sports, UofL
Unless you live under a rock or pay zero attention to the sporting landscape, you’ve heard the news that Bobby Petrino is leaving Louisville to take over the Atlanta Falcons’ head coaching position. Steve Kragthorpe from Tulsa will be announced as...
by | Sunday | Business Strategy, musings, Sports
Among my circle of friends, we have a running inside joke about our favorite sports teams achieving “sponsorship” from a fictitious company called “Medicore” when they’re average at best. We don’t accept mediocrity (the company...
by | Thursday | rant, Sports
Once again, I’m overly frustrated with UofL’s basketball program. We lost to UMass at home last night which makes our record 1-2 versus Atlantic 10 schools this year. Before I get into this, UMass has a nice squad, but they shouldn’t be marching into...