Archive | November, 2008

Bad Bosses are Killers

25. November 2008

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A few weeks ago I created a new category here, “Neuromanagement,” which fits a couple of posts I’ve got simmering on the back burner. While those are geared toward the positive use of neuro-techniques in managing and hiring, there’s a breaking news story about the dangerous physiological effects of bad management. Bloomberg writer [...]

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Bloggers and the Buyology Neuromarketing Bubble

24. November 2008

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One effect of the publication of Martin Lindstrom’s Buyology book has been a significant uptick in media coverage of neuromarketing. Lindstrom has scored a few high-visibility TV interviews (e.g., Today Show and Australian TV), and plenty of print and online media coverage.
My perception is that neuromarketing news coverage is at an all-time high. [...]

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Poland to be Neuromarketing Hub?

21. November 2008

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What could be the biggest conference to date on the topic of neuromarketing, Neuro Connections, has been scheduled for February 5-7, 2009. The conference website is www.neuroconnections.eu . The conference lineup includes Gary Singer of Buyology; Grahm Page of Millward Brown; Tim Ambler of the London School of Economics, and a variety of [...]

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Creative Disruption

19. November 2008

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Need to sell more without cutting prices or spending more on ads? It may be possible. Last week, I wrote about Guy Kawasaki’s new compendium of business savvy, Reality Check. One of the little gems he writes about is an experiment that involved selling door to door note cards. A simple [...]

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Neuromarketing on Aussie TV

18. November 2008

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Nice 5-minute interview with Buyology author Martin Lindstrom on Australian TV: Tricks of the Trade.

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Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki

12. November 2008

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Book Review – Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
by Guy Kawasaki
If you’ve ever heard one of Guy Kawasaki’s keynotes, you know he’s uniquely irreverent and very, very funny. Fortunately for readers of Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition, Guy writes that way [...]

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Obama’s Victory, McCain’s Neuro-Loss

5. November 2008

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There’s little doubt that some macro political factors were decisive in driving Barack Obama’s presidential victory over John McCain. Notably, just as the divisive Iraq war seemed to have turned the corner and started to work to McCain’s advantage instead of Obama’s, the economic crisis gave Obama a whole new issue to blame on [...]

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Helping Others Makes You Hot!

3. November 2008

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Altruism in humans is difficult to explain with traditional models of behavior, which have focused on competition between individuals for mates, scarce resources, etc. It’s undeniable, though, that being willing to help unrelated individuals is a common (though not universal) trait. In past Neuromarketing posts Taxes Aren’t Painful and The Joy of Giving [...]

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