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Life

When your Coworkers Need a Laugh…

by Andrew Swenson
Just another day at the office.

Just another day at the office.

Today I may have worn a giant bee costume, and our CEO and my director may have seen me prancing around in it.

But it didn’t matter. It was casual day and everyone who saw it cracked up.

My friend Emily (@ebarlean21) picked it up last night, and I can’t thank her enough.

Sometimes in the midst of the stress of business it’s good to take the time to laugh at ourselves and with our coworkers.

Business Practice

5 Biz Lessons from Jackson’s “Thriller” Video

by Andrew Swenson

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I may have jumped on the MJ bandwagon, but here are 5 lessons I think we can take from Jackson’s Thriller video (if you haven’t seen it, please read the post first—the link is at the bottom):

1. Do something unordinary

Thriller is much longer than the standard 3.5-minute, band-playing-in-a-warehouse video.  Part of the reason it’s memorable is that it doesn’t conform.

We claim to “think outside the box,” but how often do we end up buying ad space in the same places or sending the same email newsletter month after month? How often do we take the time to do something really different—maybe something that at first seems counter-intuitive (e.g. a computer company like Apple starting to sell MP3 players…)?