Author Archives: Jay Morris

Give up trying to find your passion and just do it

Posted on October 2, 2013 by Jay Morris

I was reading Daniel Pink the other day and reflecting on one of his counterintuitive pieces of advice: “Give up trying to find your passion.” Pink, a top-selling author on career, motivation and work-related issues, is perhaps best known for … Continue reading →

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A teachable moment at Home Depot

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Jay Morris

The sales associate had dreadlocks and was as skinny as a rail. The customer was in her early 70s, short and a little plump. She could have been three times his age. If I weren’t standing in the Nails, Screws … Continue reading →

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iOS 7 and the end of skeuomorphism

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Jay Morris

This past week, I learned a new word: skeuomorphism. A skeuomorph is an object or feature that imitates the design of a similar object made of a different material. Faux-leather and simulated woodgrain finishes are skeuomorphs. A classic example is the … Continue reading →

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Oh, how we love (and hate) our social media

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Jay Morris

Those of us who use the popular WordPress blogging platform got quite a scare on Wednesday afternoon when, “poof,” all of our followers disappeared in front of our very eyes. I saw it myself. One moment, my followers were listed … Continue reading →

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What business are you in? Or how not to be a railroad man

Posted on September 10, 2013 by Jay Morris

In his 1960 essay, “Marketing Myopia,” Harvard Business School professor Theodore Levitt famously asked readers to consider what business they were really in. He argued that the railroads lost their market share (and nearly disappeared) because they incorrectly thought they … Continue reading →

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EMV ‘smart’ cards: the next big thing in payments

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Jay Morris

An article I wrote on EMV cards just came out in The Federal Credit Union magazine, a publication of the National Association of Federal Credit Unions. So today I’m going to tell you about EMV. What are EMV cards, you ask? … Continue reading →

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Stop the world, I need to make a decision!

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Jay Morris

Has this ever happened to you? You finally work up enough nerve to ask someone out, but the person already has a date. You ponder for days whether to put in for that new job at work, only to find … Continue reading →

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What does a CEO want?

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Jay Morris

It seems that we are always guessing what CEOs want. Even the Mentalist would be hard-pressed to figure out some of the inscrutable things they say. “Transparency” may have climbed to the top of most organizations’ list of core values, … Continue reading →

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Don’t be a ‘dunce’ when it comes to blogging

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Jay Morris

Imagine that you’ve written what might well be the next great American novel. You submit it to Simon & Schuster, and they seem interested. They ask you for some rewrites, but ultimately they drop it. Your novel languishes. That is, … Continue reading →

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