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Oct31	When Did Halloween Become the Day of Bloody Killers? Roger Anderson October 31, 2007 Know More: WAYS - Say What? Learning, Proper Behavior Every October we are bombarded by more and more movies that involve a significant amount of killing by very gory and ugly methods. Why? What does this say about our society or the people who write this stuff? As a society, we condemn killing. Michael Vick is in jail, or will be, for having dogs fight and for putting some to death. Yet, Hollywood continues to make, and the various TV and cable channels continue to show the most graphic and horrible material depicting humans being treated in a manner worse than Vick's dogs got. Why is that acceptable? What kind of punishment do we prescribe for a student that enters a school with a gun? Why then is ok to create a scene where someone does the same in a movie? Because the scene is not depicting reality? So, can we make fake child porn using computer graphics? I believe it is still against the law, than goodness. There were a lot of hits on this blog yesterday regarding the post about education. I think that there is definitely a connection between what we watch and what we learn - like it or not. Freedom of speech is a valuable right. We need to use good judgment in how we reinforce or discourage media creations. If no one went to see the movies, then they would stop making so many of them. Am I alone in this? In case anyone is thinking of causing trouble at my house - this really is a picture of our dog. Posted at 12:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct30	Who's Responsible for Your Education? Roger Anderson October 30, 2007 My blogging friend Lewis has raised some very interesting questions about the need to do more about education in this country."So where is the outcry? Why isn't education more of a rallying cry for new ideas, better teachers, better pay... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct29	Why Would Someone Do this? - The California Wildfires Roger Anderson October 29, 2007 The fires are not out. Most of the blazes are close to containment but authorities do not expect the final flames to be put out until Friday. So, for another week everyone suffers because of the actions of a few.... Continue Reading Posted at 10:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct26	Don't Do Too Well This Year - It Will Make Next Year Too Hard Roger Anderson October 26, 2007 Have you ever been in a meeting with peers and heard someone say that sales have been too good this year? That they are worried about trying to exceed this next year? They start thinking about sandbagging a bit to... Continue Reading Posted at 12:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct25	Founder Transitions - A Great Blog Roger Anderson October 25, 2007 There are so many blogs on the Internet these days that it is very difficult to visit them or even to keep track of them. I started just subscribing to every blog that looked interesting. Then I sorted them into... Continue Reading Posted at 5:38 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct24	When Someone Has Been Into the Cookie Jar Roger Anderson October 24, 2007 It would appear that they have found at least one of the people responsible for setting some of the fires in California. Such events make one want to punish the person responsible and yet, what can be done to pay... Continue Reading Posted at 12:43 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct23	California is on fire - Preparation Roger Anderson October 23, 2007 Several times year Southern California experiences strong "Santa Ana Winds" that uproot trees, bring down powerlines, and start fires. Right now there are, depending on who is counting and how, something like 17 fires from Santa Barbara, Malibu, Orange County... Continue Reading Posted at 4:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	100 Calculations - How Much Data Is Too Much? Roger Anderson October 23, 2007 I got an email from Rich McIver, at the Bootstrapper blog, letting me know that they had just put up a post "Calculate This! 100 Financial Calculators Every Entrepreneur Needs". It is a collection of links to online "calculators" of... Continue Reading Posted at 11:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct22	Would You Lie as a Part of Your Job? Roger Anderson October 22, 2007 I was talking with a consulting friend today. One of the topics was management that pushed or even required people to lie. In some cases, the boss was so brutal that, in order to keep a job, people felt compelled... Continue Reading Posted at 5:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct19	Maslow Hierarchy Level 8: Transcendence Roger Anderson October 19, 2007 We have reached the top level of the pyramid. As with any lofty peak, very few people reach this point. That so few people reach this level of motivation, Maslow considered each need to be a motivator, is unfortunate. The... Continue Reading Posted at 12:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct18	7th Level Need: Self-Actualization Roger Anderson October 18, 2007 I once heard Steve Harvey, the comedian, TV star, and radio personality, give a nit of advice to young women on his radio program. He said something to the effect: If you are approached by a young man who wants... Continue Reading Posted at 12:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct17	6th Level Need: To Be Authentic - The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty Roger Anderson October 17, 2007 The need to be real, as you are perceived to be, or yourself is how I understand this level. I think that of all of the needs this one is one I think I get but I have a nagging... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct16	5th Level Need: Knowledge and Understanding Roger Anderson October 16, 2007 While I was a graduate student at Caltech, a friend asked if his very intelligent high school junior age daughter could work with me as a lab assistant for the summer. Teaching a new person how you do things can... Continue Reading Posted at 3:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct14	Blog Action Day - United Bloggers or a Giant Meme Roger Anderson October 14, 2007 Today is Blog Action Day , where 12,000 plus bloggers will all write about the environment. Since Al Gore just won the Nobel Prize, perhaps next year the Blogosphere will be so richly rewarded. Let's see, $1 million divided by... Continue Reading Posted at 8:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct12	KGI Innovation Panel - In the end will it sell? Roger Anderson October 12, 2007 One of my favorite things to do is listen to entrepreneurs speak about their business. There is usually an excitement, an enthusiasm, and an optimism that is lacking in presentations by owners of more established businesses. Perhaps SEC regulations require... Continue Reading Posted at 4:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct11	4th Level Need: Esteem Roger Anderson October 11, 2007 The last of the deficiency needs is probably the easiest need to appeal to: Esteem. Most people want to be admired. This is beyond appreciation; this is adoration to some extent. This is more than belonging; this is the desire... Continue Reading Posted at 7:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct10	Needs: 3rd Level Master; Belonging and Love Roger Anderson October 10, 2007 To continue the discussion of the hierarchy of needs, we move to level 3. Like any game or discipline that has levels, the earlier levels must have been met previously. In this case, and for this level, for a company... Continue Reading Posted at 3:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 9	Needs - After the Basics, Safety Roger Anderson October 9, 2007 Today I want to address an area of need, using the Maslow Hierarchy of needs discussed previously; Safety. The majority of people in what are called first world countries do not lack for food, water, shelter, or warmth. That is... Continue Reading Posted at 11:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 8	The Next Growth Area - Why Not South America? Roger Anderson October 8, 2007 I have often wondered why more US companies do not make use of the economical resources of South America. That is, aside from illegal labor. The time zones are very similar. Jet lag is less of an issue and the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Needs - More on "Do I need That?" Roger Anderson October 8, 2007 In the post about the pitching event on September 28, 2007, I suggested that those starting a business ask whether people would really want what you want to do. I remember reading that one investment firm uses the Maslow Hierarchy... Continue Reading Posted at 11:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 4	Wal-Mart Feels the Effect of the 5-Fold Way Roger Anderson October 4, 2007 In the October 3, 2007 Wall Street Journal article (may require subscription): "Wal-Mart Era Wanes Amid Big Shifts in Retail", Gary McWilliams says that the companies who compete with the retailing giant have found ways to beat their low prices:Rival... Continue Reading Posted at 12:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 3	Verizon Voyager - Innovation or Imitation Roger Anderson October 3, 2007 One of my fellow Know More Media blog authors, Alex Ion, has a brief post about the new Verizon Voyager phone. He believes that it will eat into iPhone sales and several of the comments left disagree. Since I was... Continue Reading Posted at 5:50 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 2	Business 2.0, Now Business 0.0 Roger Anderson October 2, 2007 I received my last copy of Business 2.0 yesterday. It seems that Time, Inc. is not going to continue publishing the magazine. This is sad because I don't like to see businesses or operations go under. That means people lose... Continue Reading Posted at 11:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 1	More from Collapse - A Business is Like an Island Roger Anderson October 1, 2007 In the post from last week (Top-Down or Bottom-Up) I discussed some of the cause of societal collapse mentioned in Jared Diamond's book, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. " Most, if not all, of these issues are... Continue Reading Posted at 5:07 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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Oct31	When Did Halloween Become the Day of Bloody Killers? Roger Anderson October 31, 2007 Know More: WAYS - Say What? Learning, Proper Behavior Every October we are bombarded by more and more movies that involve a significant amount of killing by very gory and ugly methods. Why? What does this say about our society or the people who write this stuff? As a society, we condemn killing. Michael Vick is in jail, or will be, for having dogs fight and for putting some to death. Yet, Hollywood continues to make, and the various TV and cable channels continue to show the most graphic and horrible material depicting humans being treated in a manner worse than Vick's dogs got. Why is that acceptable? What kind of punishment do we prescribe for a student that enters a school with a gun? Why then is ok to create a scene where someone does the same in a movie? Because the scene is not depicting reality? So, can we make fake child porn using computer graphics? I believe it is still against the law, than goodness. There were a lot of hits on this blog yesterday regarding the post about education. I think that there is definitely a connection between what we watch and what we learn - like it or not. Freedom of speech is a valuable right. We need to use good judgment in how we reinforce or discourage media creations. If no one went to see the movies, then they would stop making so many of them. Am I alone in this? In case anyone is thinking of causing trouble at my house - this really is a picture of our dog. Posted at 12:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct30	Who's Responsible for Your Education? Roger Anderson October 30, 2007 My blogging friend Lewis has raised some very interesting questions about the need to do more about education in this country."So where is the outcry? Why isn't education more of a rallying cry for new ideas, better teachers, better pay... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct29	Why Would Someone Do this? - The California Wildfires Roger Anderson October 29, 2007 The fires are not out. Most of the blazes are close to containment but authorities do not expect the final flames to be put out until Friday. So, for another week everyone suffers because of the actions of a few.... Continue Reading Posted at 10:50 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct26	Don't Do Too Well This Year - It Will Make Next Year Too Hard Roger Anderson October 26, 2007 Have you ever been in a meeting with peers and heard someone say that sales have been too good this year? That they are worried about trying to exceed this next year? They start thinking about sandbagging a bit to... Continue Reading Posted at 12:39 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct25	Founder Transitions - A Great Blog Roger Anderson October 25, 2007 There are so many blogs on the Internet these days that it is very difficult to visit them or even to keep track of them. I started just subscribing to every blog that looked interesting. Then I sorted them into... Continue Reading Posted at 5:38 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct24	When Someone Has Been Into the Cookie Jar Roger Anderson October 24, 2007 It would appear that they have found at least one of the people responsible for setting some of the fires in California. Such events make one want to punish the person responsible and yet, what can be done to pay... Continue Reading Posted at 12:43 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct23	California is on fire - Preparation Roger Anderson October 23, 2007 Several times year Southern California experiences strong "Santa Ana Winds" that uproot trees, bring down powerlines, and start fires. Right now there are, depending on who is counting and how, something like 17 fires from Santa Barbara, Malibu, Orange County... Continue Reading Posted at 4:21 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	100 Calculations - How Much Data Is Too Much? Roger Anderson October 23, 2007 I got an email from Rich McIver, at the Bootstrapper blog, letting me know that they had just put up a post "Calculate This! 100 Financial Calculators Every Entrepreneur Needs". It is a collection of links to online "calculators" of... Continue Reading Posted at 11:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct22	Would You Lie as a Part of Your Job? Roger Anderson October 22, 2007 I was talking with a consulting friend today. One of the topics was management that pushed or even required people to lie. In some cases, the boss was so brutal that, in order to keep a job, people felt compelled... Continue Reading Posted at 5:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct19	Maslow Hierarchy Level 8: Transcendence Roger Anderson October 19, 2007 We have reached the top level of the pyramid. As with any lofty peak, very few people reach this point. That so few people reach this level of motivation, Maslow considered each need to be a motivator, is unfortunate. The... Continue Reading Posted at 12:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct18	7th Level Need: Self-Actualization Roger Anderson October 18, 2007 I once heard Steve Harvey, the comedian, TV star, and radio personality, give a nit of advice to young women on his radio program. He said something to the effect: If you are approached by a young man who wants... Continue Reading Posted at 12:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct17	6th Level Need: To Be Authentic - The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty Roger Anderson October 17, 2007 The need to be real, as you are perceived to be, or yourself is how I understand this level. I think that of all of the needs this one is one I think I get but I have a nagging... Continue Reading Posted at 12:04 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct16	5th Level Need: Knowledge and Understanding Roger Anderson October 16, 2007 While I was a graduate student at Caltech, a friend asked if his very intelligent high school junior age daughter could work with me as a lab assistant for the summer. Teaching a new person how you do things can... Continue Reading Posted at 3:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct14	Blog Action Day - United Bloggers or a Giant Meme Roger Anderson October 14, 2007 Today is Blog Action Day , where 12,000 plus bloggers will all write about the environment. Since Al Gore just won the Nobel Prize, perhaps next year the Blogosphere will be so richly rewarded. Let's see, $1 million divided by... Continue Reading Posted at 8:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct12	KGI Innovation Panel - In the end will it sell? Roger Anderson October 12, 2007 One of my favorite things to do is listen to entrepreneurs speak about their business. There is usually an excitement, an enthusiasm, and an optimism that is lacking in presentations by owners of more established businesses. Perhaps SEC regulations require... Continue Reading Posted at 4:01 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct11	4th Level Need: Esteem Roger Anderson October 11, 2007 The last of the deficiency needs is probably the easiest need to appeal to: Esteem. Most people want to be admired. This is beyond appreciation; this is adoration to some extent. This is more than belonging; this is the desire... Continue Reading Posted at 7:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct10	Needs: 3rd Level Master; Belonging and Love Roger Anderson October 10, 2007 To continue the discussion of the hierarchy of needs, we move to level 3. Like any game or discipline that has levels, the earlier levels must have been met previously. In this case, and for this level, for a company... Continue Reading Posted at 3:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 9	Needs - After the Basics, Safety Roger Anderson October 9, 2007 Today I want to address an area of need, using the Maslow Hierarchy of needs discussed previously; Safety. The majority of people in what are called first world countries do not lack for food, water, shelter, or warmth. That is... Continue Reading Posted at 11:14 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 8	The Next Growth Area - Why Not South America? Roger Anderson October 8, 2007 I have often wondered why more US companies do not make use of the economical resources of South America. That is, aside from illegal labor. The time zones are very similar. Jet lag is less of an issue and the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:44 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Needs - More on "Do I need That?" Roger Anderson October 8, 2007 In the post about the pitching event on September 28, 2007, I suggested that those starting a business ask whether people would really want what you want to do. I remember reading that one investment firm uses the Maslow Hierarchy... Continue Reading Posted at 11:57 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 4	Wal-Mart Feels the Effect of the 5-Fold Way Roger Anderson October 4, 2007 In the October 3, 2007 Wall Street Journal article (may require subscription): "Wal-Mart Era Wanes Amid Big Shifts in Retail", Gary McWilliams says that the companies who compete with the retailing giant have found ways to beat their low prices:Rival... Continue Reading Posted at 12:37 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 3	Verizon Voyager - Innovation or Imitation Roger Anderson October 3, 2007 One of my fellow Know More Media blog authors, Alex Ion, has a brief post about the new Verizon Voyager phone. He believes that it will eat into iPhone sales and several of the comments left disagree. Since I was... Continue Reading Posted at 5:50 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 2	Business 2.0, Now Business 0.0 Roger Anderson October 2, 2007 I received my last copy of Business 2.0 yesterday. It seems that Time, Inc. is not going to continue publishing the magazine. This is sad because I don't like to see businesses or operations go under. That means people lose... Continue Reading Posted at 11:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Oct 1	More from Collapse - A Business is Like an Island Roger Anderson October 1, 2007 In the post from last week (Top-Down or Bottom-Up) I discussed some of the cause of societal collapse mentioned in Jared Diamond's book, "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. " Most, if not all, of these issues are... Continue Reading Posted at 5:07 PM \| Permalink \| Comments

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