Janet Fouts

MARCH 20, 2023

Can we have a conversation, give feedback or direction and feel we’ve represented our best selves? And it is akin to the leap organizations and leaders must make from focusing on physical processes to making cognitive processes a priority and acquiring the tools and skills currently missing in organizations of all types and sizes.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 24, 2017

Rather than making decisions based on parsing the big data, we can listen in on conversations about the issue we want to address, our product, our competitors’ products, and the needs of the consumer. Humans still have to process this data and guage what the feelings associated with it are. Nah, we’re being facetious. Listen to social.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In case you’re not familiar with the term, gamification is the process of using gaming elements like scoring, competition, play, and rewards to encourage action. The idea of meditating together with 10,000 people around the world is powerful, and I’ve struck up several conversations around these notifications on Twitter. The naysayers.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 28, 2018

This process only takes a moment, and if you practice often –before you need it– you’ll find you can naturally drop into it without seeming obvious to anyone. It’s a beautiful thing when this happens, it can leave lingering positive feelings for both parties, and make the conversation flow more smoothly. S top what you’re doing.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 16, 2011

When you have a conversation with someone about something you are passionate about–whether it’s sports, business or your kids–it creates an affinity with that person. A few of these conversations adds up to a relationship. They share their interests freely, allowing you entrée to that first conversation quite easily.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

At the end of the process he discovered that rather than a shapely bell curve, he had several clusters of information showing that Americans liked their sauce in 3 main groups; plain, spicy and chunky. The consumers taste tested and rated the sauces. Those old school methods are no longer valid.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 2, 2010

I’m a lot more likely to write about your product if I already know you and we’ve been in conversation already. Having a natural conversation among friends is a good way to share your latest information and you may find more than one in the group who will help get the word out. Make it short and rich. Not so much.

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