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Airline Blues

admin • November 20, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Improvement, Out of the Box
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Well it’s not much, but it’s something. In the days of $7 pillows, blankets and Budweiser’s pretty much anything the airlines do that is positive comes as a surprise. When everyone in your industry sucks, even a little gesture can make a difference. On October 16th, our flight was an…

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Sell in Unusual Places

admin • August 3, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Guerrilla Thinking
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With a title like “Everything Men know about Women”, you would expect it to be a short book.               Really short. In fact, when you flip it open, it’s nothing but blank pages.             LOL! Everything Men know about…

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Seth Godin and Fractals

admin • July 21, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Leadership
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I wonder is Seth has ever heard of a Fractal. As most of you know, I almost never post articles one day right after another on Tangent Time. I am always trying to be respectful of your time. But I want to make an exception today because I think this…

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Facebook and Fractals

admin • July 20, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Improvement
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I’m kinda new to Facebook and learning about social media the way most of us are; diving in and skinning our knees along the way. I think it is really interesting the way such a simple concept like Facebook can be so viral. You start out by simply signing up…

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Antennas Up

admin • July 11, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Awareness, Business Models, Creativity
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“Always be on the lookout for opportunities” We have all heard some version of that more than the name Michael Jackson since June 25th, 2009. Yeah we get it. We all understand the basic concept: keep your eyes and ears open. (I wonder why “nose” never made it into that…

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Homes Showcased Like Rock Stars

admin • May 15, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Advertising, Creativity, Real Estate
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            This ad is about as exciting as filing dental records, on back-to-back shifts. Alone. If anyone driving down the freeway actually read this billboard they would lapse into a coma. Hands frozen to the wheel at 10:00 and 2:00. The scene of a 30…

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Uptake.com

admin • May 1, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Merging, TRIZ
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One of the TRIZ lens in my book “Da Vinci and the 40 Answers” is called Merging. It is where you take multiple products, services, and entities and merge them together to make something new. The Internet is ripe with examples of merging. “Mashups” are the merging of two existing…

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Death of the Realtor

admin • April 17, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Business Models, Creativity, Real Estate
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Headline – April 17th, 2013 – RE/MAX Grounded RE/Max International based in Denver, Colorado closed its doors today. The real estate giant, who once boasted a workforce of 100,000 agents spanning 65 countries, is calling it quits. “It is with great regret that we have elected to close the last…

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Lime in the Coconut

admin • April 14, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creative Thinking, Creativity, Play
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Last week in my “Da Vinci and the 40 Answers” class we stressed the importance of play. Being a stuffed shirt 24/7 helps no one, especially you. It is unhealthy. You need to give your self time to play. Why? Well for one reason it has been shown that historically…

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Autism Improves your Bottom Line

admin • April 8, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Autism, Creativity, Temple Grandin, TRIZ
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How Autism can Improve your Bottom Line? Temple Grandin’s book, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, explores the idea that autistic individuals can better relate to and understand the way animals think and feel because of similarities in their brain development. She argues that…

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Pre-Crumpled Letter

admin • April 7, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Proposal
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“This letter has been pre-crumpled to assist you with a more efficient disposal process” This is the opening line of a recent letter I wrote to some of the top business book publishers in the country; • Barron’s • Bloomberg • Doubleday • Gotham • McGraw-Hill • Penguin I know they get tens of thousands of…

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Da Vinci Parachute

admin • April 7, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Adrian Nicholas, Creativity, Da Vinci Parachute
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Over 500 years ago Leonardo da Vinci designed a parachute. He was certain it would fly, though he had no way to prove it. This was true of most of his designs. The cliché – “He was way ahead of his time” came into existence because of Lenny. In fact…

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People, Places, and Activites

admin • March 31, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Fiction Writing, Out of the Box
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It doesn’t happen by accident, it happens by design. What people, places, and activities do you indulge in to stimulate your creativity? Your current hobbies don’t count. You need to experience things that are foreign to you and you need to do it on a regular basis. It won’t just…

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Tiger Woods – He’s not Perfect

admin • March 30, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Improvement, Tiger Woods
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“Look straight ahead Tommy. He will be coming right up the hill any second. He’ll be just 10 feet in front of you. Can you believe it? Do you see him yet? Wait……. any second now.” It’s the 2nd day of the Bayhill Classic Golf Tournament. Standing on the west…

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Roger Von Oech

admin • March 26, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox A Few Good Men, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Roger Von Oech
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A Few Good Men. They’re still out there. It seems like it is hard to find them these days with the likes of Bernie Madoff, AIG Morons, and the bunch. But I sure talked to a Good Man last night. Roger Von Oech has been the leading pioneer in Creativity…

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Safe

admin • March 26, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Leadership, Safe
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When someone says…. “Is it safe?” What does that mean ? Webster defines safe as; 1. Secure from harm, danger, or evil 2. Free from injury or danger 3. Free from riskEvery one of these definitions are horribly wrong.   When you say to someone, “Yes it is safe”, it…

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Where have all the Cowboys Gone?

admin • March 26, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Leadership, Paula Cole
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Did this country secretly assassinate all of the business leaders?  The ones with balls I mean. Obviously something happened. I am not sure what. I don’t remember hearing about it on the news. Paula Cole’s hit song my never have been intended to be targeted at the spineless corporate leaders…

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Ms. South Carolina

admin • March 25, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Caitlin Upton, Creativity, Ms. South Carolina
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“Brains times Beauty equals a constant”  (B X b = K) In college, I was actually brave enough to say that to two ladies in a bar one night. One was good looking and the other one was not. The not so good looking one said; “That’s not funny….asshole” The…

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Woody’s Viewpoint

admin • March 25, 2009Random Thoughts by Mark L. Fox Creativity, Space Shuttle, Viewpoint, Woody Woodpecker
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Being a rocket scientist isn’t always the glory and glamour you might think. Like all jobs there are times you get assigned to tasks that just are not that sexy. The Space Shuttle External Tank is the big brown tank in the middle of the vehicle. It is covered in…

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