For CMOs or CMOs or anyone who calls marketing their profession, I’ll bet my life you’ve come across countless stories in the media and trade publications that include one of the following statements (or something similar): 1) Marketing today is incredibly more complex and more difficult than it was 10 and certainly 20 years ago. […]
It’s vacation planning time again, and you know for sure that you want to spend it quite differently than you have in the past. A different holiday because maybe the year so far has been difficult and stressful with all the talk of job cuts, economic uncertainty and now even swine flu. Why not just […]
Over the last four weeks (and after having been training for 18 years), I have noticed some very concerning environments. It worries me as a coach, parent, and independent observer to have witnessed high-level, mid-level, and grassroots academies constantly being told “it’s getting better.” I have seen some good examples of well-intentioned people managing safety […]
Introduction: some questions to set the stage Should you trust your doctor? Is the medical system organized and controlled by the modern equivalent of highway robbers? What can we learn from the way colonoscopies are marketed and priced in the United States? What is the single most important lesson from a brief exploration of these […]
As movie star Joan Crawford once said, “The only thing worse than talking is not talking.” In the converging global economy, things are not that different: in many ways, the only thing worse than opening borders is not opening them. Sure, there are downsides to the free exchange of goods, services, and money. But the […]
The brain is the control organ of the body which is a complex system of interconnected parts. It is the seat of all major nerve functions that occur in the human body. Not only the usual stress factors of your daily life, but also the lack of nutrition compromises the efficiency of the brain and […]
Throughout history, people all over the world have made alcoholic beverages with indigenous ingredients. Guavaberry liqueur is one of the most unique examples of this universal effort. Made in various places in the Caribbean, the concoction is usually associated with St. Maarten, where it is considered the national drink. Plant Contrary to its name, guava […]
Evaluation of youth soccer players Evaluating youth soccer players, whether for a draft or to determine positions, is one of the most important yet underperformed tasks of many youth soccer coaches. Too often a player is assigned a position because it “looks like” the position without regard to the skills required for that specific position. […]
In simple terms, Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is a technique of indexing, parsing, listing, or categorizing certain keywords or phrases in the content of various websites, books, or documents in such a way that they are contextually and conceptually the same. or related intent and meaning despite the different words used in them. The technique […]
The World Wide Web conjures up images of a giant spider’s web where everything is connected to everything else in a random pattern and you can get from one edge of the web to another simply by following the right links. Theoretically, that’s what makes the web different from the typical index system: you can […]
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