Monthly Archive: October 2009

Pixar grows Up!

Pixar grows Up!

Since its very beginning, Pixar Animation Studios is all about wonderful storytelling, connecting with people in a way that do not involve anything but pure emotion, so the eye, the mind and the heart are not caught up in the clutter.
Following its tradition, Pixar’s new feature film Up again pushes the envelope of emotional expression [...]

Consumer Zeitgeist

Consumer Zeitgeist

Marketing rules. It plays an extensive function in business’ practice and scholars provide pivotal evidence about the phenomenon. Anyway, the academic discourse seeking to define the concept of marketing and its measurable economic relevance is still ongoing: in the wrong direction I might add.
Even though the essential marketing practice is old as human trade is, [...]

The rush for increased productivity

Personal Productivity

In all likelyhood, unless you work as a freelance1, you will spend most of your professional career worrying about a variety of issues, most of which are not strictly related to your core expertise. Dreaming of your career as a super-duper manager, I bet you can figure on all sorts of cool things happening to [...]