http://chipconley.com/musings Chip Conley's Musings Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:23:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [Originally posted August 31, 2010 on the Huffington Post] Last year, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore lamented the fact that the bankers were "burning down our economy" while earning obscene bonuses.  Recently, some Tea Party conservatives have suggested that President Obama, with his gentle demeanor and misplaced upbeat perspective on the economy, ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=145 [Originally posted August 24, 2010 on the Huffington Post] One of the great mysteries in life is why some of us prefer to be swamp-dwellers. Not literally. I'm not dissing those living in the low country of the Gulf States or, frankly, anyone stuck in less than pristine living conditions. No, ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=144 [Originally posted July 22, 2010 on the Huffington Post] I'm a premature grandpa.  At age 49, I've got a couple of grandsons, Deshawn and Danari, who are 15 and 13 and you might as well call them "Generation Why?" because they're at that age when they're full of questions.  While we ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=143 Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychologist, who was imprisoned in a Nazi death camp and wrote one of the ultimate tomes on existence ("Man's Search for Meaning") once lamented, "People have enough to live by but nothing to live for: they have the means but no meaning."  This is the predicament ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=142 [Originally posted June 15, 2010 on the Huffington Post] That's paraphrasing a wisdom Warren Buffett once uttered (by the way, Warren Buffett's lunch auction sold for a record $2.63 million last weekend in the annual charity fundraiser for Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco; this is the highest winning bid in ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=141 [Originally posted June 4, 2010 on the Huffington Post] "What I can't figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)?  He knows he can't win."  Bill Gates said that in a Vanity Fair interview in June 1998 with journalist Robert Cringely for a ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=140 [Originally posted May 5, 2010 on the Huffington Post]  Is it possible that your head of HR may also be your head brand strategist?  That’s hard for most companies to imagine.  But, in the transparent “word-of-mouse” business world that exists today, your company culture and how it influences employee and ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=139 Chip will be the featured speaker at a conference organized by GLOBAL MANAGERS on June 3, 2010.  The conference, entitled "The Rebel Entrepreneurs: Heroes of the Business World" will be held at the prestigious Ibero-American University in the Santa Fe district of Mexico City. Building on the business principles founded in Chip's two most recent books ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=138 [Originally posted April 13, 2010 on the Huffington Post] Has this Great Recession created a great depression in the collective psyche of the modern world? The Brits recently reported that in 2008 – in the early stages of the recession - their suicide rate statistically rose for the first time in ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=137  [Originally posted March 15, 2010 on the Huffington Post] One hundred twenty million of us received the same letter last week.  It was a simple warning from the U.S. Census that we would be receiving our mandatory Census form in the next week.  The U.S. government spent $57 to $85 million ... http://chipconley.com/musings/?p=136