Part 1 in what is likely to be an ongoing series across multiple blogs on naming a company. Naming your company or a project is serious business. If you’re anything like me naming the beast is on the critical path to designing the website or lay out. I’ve gone through this experience recently with Jon [...]
Study: To SELL music you need more than Good Music
As I noted in an earlier post, my posts will be semi-deep dives into under represented analysis or data points in business. As a music aficionado, looking at the media space in my daily role, figuring out what was going on in the music industry seemed like a natural first dive. The good news is there are [...]
Of Sprints and Marathons
“Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best” - Michael Johnson Priority 1 So we've done it. We've disturbed inertia and finally have notsocommoncents up and [...]
Shame on you Merck
Merck continues it's stellar string of "achievements" by creating a fraudulent peer-review journal to publish data that casts a favorable light on Fosamax and other drugs. I'm not surprised at this course off action from Merck, a company that hasn't had a blockbuster drug in years. I am more furious at Elsevier, a respected academic journal publisher, that did NOT [...]
Subprime Primer
Just in case you all haven't seen this.... Subprime Primerhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=subprime-primer-120370041367450-4&rel=0&stripped_title=subprime-primer-277484 View more presentations from guesta9d12e.
Apple’s shift into chip design
The Wall Street Journal is reporting on Apple's efforts to assemble the people and intellectual property pieces into a strategy to exploit opportunities for exclusive features and to take back control over its product release cycle. While I can understand and appreciate Apple's desire to limit 3rd party involvement around new and updated products, what [...]
An Introduction of Sorts
There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of time. But it was a beginning. -- Robert Jordan I knew I wanted to bring notsocommoncents back to life when I found myself blogging about the disruptive trends in business and technology on my company's SharePoint. Somehow, I had finally become comfortable [...]
What can business learn from Academia?
So we're in the first week of relaunching the blog. Complete with not yet altogether template - and devoid of course of content. Justin and I made the conscious decision to just get it up and running and observe how the blog evolves from there. I don't want writers block to settle in, so I'll [...]
It’s been a long time..We shouldn’t have left you…
We are relaunching bigger and better than ever. In the meantime please pardon our dust.....
Mikal-El 