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back in 1995, a capricious and religious man …wrote a legendary article online…it drew the attention of the world - and created a brief internet phenomenon around the subject of conversational terrorism…and so i set out to connect with dean, and have since requested and received his gracious permission to reprint the article here in its entirety

okay, some clarification for folks who keep reading about “primary and secondary” research all over this site (including folks who were emailing me)…Primary and Secondary Research explained: (warning to you overly sensitive types: though folks might disagree with me here, the following definitions are usually well-suited to describe Primary and Secondary research and might [...]

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.” - Mark Twain
I was delighted to read Michael Moretti’s recent piece on CI in the hiring process, as well as the related piece which he wrote over at HR.com. For those interested, there was [...]

Albert Einstein once mused, “If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?â€? You have no idea, Steiny, no idea.
When it comes to profiling executives – and people in general - you’ve really got to pause up front and make a clear choice between the deep ocean or the [...]

“To control your cow, give it a bigger pasture.” - Suzuki Roshi, Zen Master
In the field of competitive intelligence, primary research is loosely defined as ‘in depth interviews’ with individuals likely to be intimate with competitor or marketplace activity. This might include employees of a competitor, suppliers and buyers, partners, pundits, former employees and many [...]