2,272 stories by "Joe Patti"
I got recruited at the last minute to teach a public speaking class this semester. After a week, I have already started to make my problem their problem. I asked the students, in a time when…
Back in January, I wrote about some of the intriguing aspects of Netflix’s human resource policies. One of these policies was that they provide generous severance packages to people th…
Createquity may be in reruns right now while they reorganize, but they have great timing. Today they featured a post from 2011 which was something of a complement to the post about pricing a…
Seth Godin posted some thoughts about pricing that are worthy of consideration. The fact this post is about three times as long as his usual posts indicates the importance he places on the t…
As immersive arts experiences become increasingly prevalent, there have been some interesting introspective reflections of the experiences recently in The Guardian and Irish Times. Both piec…
Non-Profit Law blogger Gene Tagaki recently tweeted a link to an article he wrote for the American Bar Association about 5 years ago urging lawyers to consider alternatives to forming non-pr…
It often seems one of the hardest things to do in the performing arts is to correctly anticipate audience interest in a show. Related to that is gauging the best way to market and position a…
If you didn’t catch it, in June Non-Profit Quarterly had a good 101 guide on when it is appropriate for non-profits to take out loans.  Most times you hear about non-profits and …
Via Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution is a proposal put forth in the Stanford Law Review suggesting replacing board members with a professional board services company. When I first saw the …
Yesterday, I was speaking with a friend who was learning English as a second language. I don’t remember which word it was exactly, but we got on the subject of corporate speak, the nig…
Over the years I have written about the gentrification effect of artists in neighborhoods. While artists are often displaced as they make a neighborhood increasingly trendy, there have been …
There was a post on the Harvard Business Review blog site about a recent leadership study – Why You Lead Determines How Well You Lead. According to the study, people with an internal m…
When you do a S.W.O.T. analysis for your organization (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats), Opportunities and Threats were where you listed external situations that could help or hi…
A couple weeks ago, I encouraged others to take away my right to vote. Why? Because I am an ex-officio director on a board by dint of my position and during a recent review of the board̵…
I almost passed by a recent post by Lucy Bernholz on Philanthropy 2173 blog titled What Are Non-Profits For? I’m glad I didn’t because her news that health clubs were challenging…
A very interesting question regarding the relationship between an agent and artist was recently broached on the Musical America blog. An agent who has an artist leaving their representation …
You may have seen a number of articles out in the last day or two debunking the idea popularized by Malcolm Gladwell that we need 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery. A New York Time…
A few days ago, NPR’s Planet Money ran a story asking why there isn’t demand pricing for movies where you pay more for blockbusters and less for the stinkers. Among the suggestio…
I am back from my trip to Germany. Part of my trip was devoted to helping my mother do some genealogy research. In the process, I came to a realization I think we have all have suspected- Th…
Some time back I was involved in a project that put me a table with folks from the local YMCA. I was interested to learn that at the time, the YMCA as well as other athletic facilities were …
If things are quiet for you over the summer, it might be a good time to evaluate your interactions with donors and customers. A few years back, I brought attention to a number of interesting…
With the 4th of July just past, I am reminded that as bad as we may things are these days, the United States as served as an exemplar other people have sought to emulate. I use that as a rea…
Seven years ago, I made a blog post that included Scott Walters’ ideas about actor training, Seth Godin’s idea about “conceptual dip” and my observations that history…
Seven years ago, I experienced something of a convergence of events. Not long after I finished reading Peter Drucker’s Managing Oneself in which he says, "Whenever you make a key decis…
I will be traveling abroad for the next couple weeks, but as I am wont to do on these occasions, I have prepared a retrospective of some interesting entries from the blog archives. Back in A…
