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Here’s a visually stunning presentation about the state of the Internet. The blogosphere section was particularly interesting.
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Here’s a visually stunning presentation about the state of the Internet. The blogosphere section was particularly interesting.
Finally, Heinz reinvents the ketchup packet! Now you can dip - OR - squeeze. And it holds 3x the ketchup - so less handfuls of ketchup packets.
Genius.
“Heinz, which sells more than 11 million ketchup packets a year, will continue to sell its traditional foil packets as well, ABC News reported. The new packaging is getting a road test in the Midwest and Southwest this summer and is expected to be available in fast-food restaurants this fall.
In addition to updating the ketchup packet, Heinz is reducing the sodium content of its core line of ketchup products by 15 percent. It’s also launching Simply Heinz Tomato Ketchup, which uses sugar in place of high-fructose corn sweetener.”
The latest Google lobby display: Google-inspired fashion from this year’s 10 Vogue + CFDA Fashion Fund designers.
Also available as iGoogle themes.
(photo via donlbe)
Q. How has your leadership style evolved, given your experience running several companies?
A. You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they’re all pointed in the right direction. By 150, it’s clear that that’s not going to scale, and you’ve got to find some way to keep everybody going in productive directions when you’re not in the room. And that, to me, is a huge amount of what it means to manage. But I went to Harvard Business School and that never occurred to me the whole time. And I’d started a bunch of companies and never gotten to that understanding, even with one company I had that I did take up to over 200 people.
Q. So give me an example of what you did to change that.
A. I’d turn people into C.E.O.’s. One thing I did at my second company was to put white sticky sheets on the wall, and I put everyone’s name on one of the sheets, and I said, “By the end of the week, everybody needs to write what you’re C.E.O. of, and it needs to be something really meaningful.” And that way, everyone knows who’s C.E.O. of what and they know whom to ask instead of me. And it was really effective. People liked it. And there was nowhere to hide.
Yep, that would be a hole in my new TV (it went all the way through). Now I’m pestered with filing damage claims when instead I could be taking this thing home tonight to catch the premiere of Lost :(
UPS shipping FAIL.
Excited for the next generation of Julia Roberts’, Jennifer Anistons, and Sandra Bullocks.
