by King Monkey | May 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Everyone likes to get a bargain, whether it’s on a big ticket item such as a new car, a great cut of meat, or some knick-knack at a rummage sale across town. But when does getting a great deal begin to back fire on you? Do you ever reach a point of diminishing...
by King Monkey | Apr 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
We’ve all had those projects/business ventures that just don’t feel “right” from the start. They seem to make sense at conception—they may even get us jazzed—but once they get underway, the momentum just sort of fizzles. For every one step forward, you seem to take...
by King Monkey | Apr 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
REVENGE. It sure makes for great movie fodder. After all, what can be better than Ricardo Montalbán (as Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek II) purring “Revenge is a dish best served cold” to Kirk and crew as the faltering Enterprise faces near-certain doom? Good stuff...
by King Monkey | Apr 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Back in 1600, when Shakespeare penned Juliet’s now-famous line “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” I doubt he ever imagined it would be used in a 2012 business blog about “branding.” But here it is. And with my...
by King Monkey | Apr 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Creativity is amazing. Seemingly out of thin air, creative types produce great works of art and literature, they innovate with architecture, technology, medicine, song. If you can name it, chances are there was a creative person behind it. You think Albert Einstein...