I need your help!

30 06 2008

I’m conducting a little experiment and would love your input .. anonymously or with your name. As IBM doesn’t make laptops anymore, a few people ask me, “So, what does IBM do?” … Yet IBM is still one of the world’s best known brands. That said, what do you think of when you hear “IBM”?

Would be grateful to all who read this post to add their $0.02 to the following 3 questions:

1. When you hear “IBM” what three words immediately come to mind? Why?

2. What business is IBM in? What does IBM do?

3. Would you be surprised to learn that IBM is helping the local police departments find better ways to fight crime? Or that IBM is helping to develop a new rice grain so we can better feed the world? Do these stories change the way you think about IBM? Why?





Smiley .. it’s just who I am

30 06 2008

When I was living in Singapore, I earned the nickname “Smiley.” Yeah, so much for the austere, mature business persona I was trying to convey.

Well, I am just learning that I was born to be smiley. Thanks to Melissa who forwarded me The Birthday Calculator … which fostered this result:

  • Lucky number: 9 (ok I guess)
  • Birth sign: Leo (true)
  • Fortune: “Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.”
  • Plant: Raspberry (weird, that’s my favorite berry … and I didn’t know you could have a plant as part of your horoscope)
  • Native American Horosope sign: Salmon (hey, I love Salmon!)
  • My birth tree is a Poplar — and it has qualities that sound strangely like I feel at times.
  • When I was born, the moon was in this phase: waxing gibbous (no idea what that means, but it sounds cool… yep, I think that will be my facebook status message today)

Seriously: Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

I love it.

Had to share :-)








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