Intuitional decision making

The fact that we watch a lot of TV, and that this has been running the logic of many is becoming more acceptable these days. In the world of movies we usually associate with the good guys. Usually those good guys are heroes capable of beating the bad guys with there “innate” capabilities.

Many try to represent the scenario in real life. This has a bright side: it does inspire people to do good things. But it becomes risky when those people are in charge. What turned me on to write this is the way some leaders and politicians take there decisions.

Do real life situations give us the luxury to experience our fantasy?

Negative and positive spirals

Spirals, in the commercial sense, are actions that follow each other by lows of causality to increase or decrease in a non-linear fashion. If we take the example of the highly popular community website Facebook, the software had no value when it had only one member as this member had no one to communicate with. Each new member will add to the value of the network and to its users and will attract more new users to sign-up.

أثمن ما أملك

كنت أحصي ممتلكاتي منذ أيام. و بما أنني لا أملك الكثير لأتباهى به فقد قررت كحال معظم الفقراء أن ألهي نفسي بالتفكير بالمعني الحقيقي لقيمة الأشياء. ما الذي يجعل شيئا ما قيما و شيئا اخر غير ذي قيمة؟

كانت أول فكرة بادرتني هي أن الأشياء القيمة هي الأشياء التي نتباهى بامتلاكها. و لكن هل يعني ذلك أننا نرى قيمة الأشياء في عيون الاخرين فقط. قد يكون هذا صحيحا إذ أن الملابس القديمة تبدو فجأة ذات قيمة عندما نسمع إطراء ما. و كلما ازداد توافق الناس على قيمة شئ ما زادت قيمة هذا الشئ.

Say I love you

Personally, I lived my life with a certain distance from people. I was never the kind of guy who starts a new conversation in a public place. And in general, I would not initiate personal relationships with colleagues or coworkers. People criticized me for this many times, but my point of view was that people waste too much time complementing each other.

One of my habits is observing people. I noticed that people who are over-friendly with others hardly manage to gain there respect.

A real love exercise!!

Most people, when in a relationship, don’t know whether they where really in love or they are, actually, in love with the fact that they are in love.

We see it some times when two lovers leave each other; one or both of them launches a war on the other. In fact they begin talking about each other as if they were never lovers.

و يقولون أن العرب شعب عاطفي !!

 

هذه هي المرة الأولى التي أكتب فيها مقالا باللغة العربية. السبب ببساطة هو أنني لا أحفظ الأحرف العربية على لوحة المفاتيح بينما أكتب باللغة الإنكليزية دون النظر إليها. لطالما سألت نفسي عن السبب في تقصيري في تعلم كتابة لغتي الأم. ربما كان السبب هو أن عملي يتطلب مني الكتابة باللغة الإنكليزية فقط بما أن هذه اللغة هي لغة “البزنس”. لم يخطر ببالي ولا مرة أن هذا التقصير سببه الإحساس اللا واعي باللاإنتماء أو بمعنى أصح التجرد اللا واعي من الإنتماء.

في مدونتي هذه كتبت كل المواضيع باللغة الإنكليزية لأنني أود التجرد من أي إنتماء سياسي أو ديني أو عرقي. أود أن أحاور العالم بلغة العالم. و لكنني هذه المرة أكتب بالعربية لأني لا أريد لغير العرب أن يقرأوا ما سأكتب. لأنني لا أريد أن أنتمي إلى قائمة النادبين و بلهاء السياسيين. و لأنني أريد أن أوجه رسالتي إلى الشخص المناسب أو الشعب المناسب.

Mr. Commissioner, Do you speak English?

Yesterday, the UN reported that the Syrian delegate to the UN did not say that: “Israeli warplanes hit a nuclear facility in Syria”. They said that this was mentioned in there report by a “translation mistake”.  The mistaken report struck a cord in the media worldwide and generated a lot of headlines.

I always wonder why he doesn’t speak English for god’s sake. I know that in politics the commissioner or the delegate is a representative of his country in many ways; one of them is the language. Politicians believe that the language is like the flag. It should be protected and presented in international encounters. But this has a lot of disadvantages.

Customer loyalty programs

“Corporations usually spend much time and resources to gain a new customer. In fact, the real work actually begins when you gain the new customer.”

You most probably heard about the customer life-time value (that is the real long term value of a customer taking into account the nature of his sales, timely evolution, potential referrals, and the cost of gaining a new customer).

Give them the freedom or not?

This is a question I’ve been asking my self for some time: in large companies, should we give the freedom of taking decisions to junior managers?

Frankly speaking, because I am a liberal kind of guy, I always thought that everyone should be given full control on his own domain. This was because I thought that each one is more familiar with his own work more than anybody and he is the one more capable to take a decision.

E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms

This is an interesting and a respectful effort to define certain terms of E-commerce and Marketing by Alex Brown

Here’s the link: http://www.udel.edu/alex/dictionary.html