Month: January 2018

What moves people

Bill Clinton, Jeff Bezos and How Smart Leaders Capitalize on What Moves People

In 1992, despite unprecedented approval ratings for George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton won the election. He did so by strategically betting that voters would care more about the sluggish recovery from the recession than about Bush’s success in Desert Storm. Political strategist James Carville coined the phrase “the economy, stupid”. That strategy won the White House for …

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Tide Pods on Amazon

Tide Pods, Dangerous Social Media Challenges & Amazon’s Responsibility

People—lots of them—are eating Tide Laundry Pods. On purpose. There. I said it out loud. I was almost too embarrassed to write this post, except that every word is true. In fact, there were 12,000 Poison Control calls for people ingesting laundry pods in 2017. The stunt is one of many dangerous social media challenges …

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