Jack Deal's Profile and Articles

Caribbean Ecocide or Where Did the Cancun and Playa Del Carmen Beaches Go?
Mar 7, 2008
Cancun is Las Vegas South. Playa del Carmen is like Myrtle Beach. Que pasa?
Category: Nature
Continuous Recruitment or Why You Should Always Be Accepting Applications
Mar 7, 2008
Continuous recruitment is a valuable recruiting tool that improves overall recruiting results. Always accepting applications is a good first step.
Category: Human Resources
Why Non-Dairy Creamer is the Greatest Marketing Coup of All Time
Mar 6, 2008
Non-dairy creamer proves that humans can fake themselves out with just about anything.
Category: Humor
Are Your Employees Good Enough to Beat Your Competition?
Mar 4, 2008
Are your people good enough? How do you know? What do you do once you know? Why should you care?
Category: Human Resources
Is There Life After Work or Is Work the Most Interesting Thing in My Life?
Mar 3, 2008
Do you live to work or work to live? A fragmented life is not only less productive but less meaningful and less fun.
Category: Careers and Jobs
Customer Loyalty or Where Did All the Customers Go?
Mar 2, 2008
Whatever happened to the concept of customer loyalty?
Category: Customer Service
A Simple Matter of Trust or a Maya's Perception of Honesty
Mar 1, 2008
The Maya believe that little tests can provide great insight into one's character. Here we use the Maya test on a Maya...
Category: Self Improvement
How to Get Free Food by Effectively Using the Halftime Exit Strategy
Feb 29, 2008
By focusing on the silly needs of others we can often reap unexpected benefits.
Category: Humor
The Jaguar and Why He is the Keystone Cop of the Rainforest
Feb 29, 2008
The jaguar is the top of the food chain but seldom attacks man. Could this wildest of beasts be smarter than we think?
Category: Nature
Moss Landing, California: From Toxic Fish to Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary
Feb 29, 2008
As the fishing industry has committed suicide the California coastal town of Moss Landing has managed to convert from blue collar fish to white...
Category: Travel
'The Dating Manual for Old Marrieds' is a Cognitive Behavioral Engineering Helpdesk
Feb 28, 2008
Old married couples are now going out on dates in order to put some excitement back in their marriage. Just how this is role played seems to be key...
Category: Humor
The Two Marble Stress Reduction Therapy Plan or 'What Me Worry'?
Feb 28, 2008
Chinese worry balls work but neuroscientists don't know why. Marbles are much more portable and have been shown to be just as effective.
Category: Humor
National Health Care Reform Will Determine the Next President of the United States
Feb 27, 2008
Universal health care will be the swing vote in the upcoming Presidential election in November.
Category: Politics
Sometimes One Has To Stay Focused, Take a Deep Breath and Just Jump In...
Feb 27, 2008
Nothing ventured,nothing gained or fear of failure?
Category: Self Improvement
New Hybrid Web Based Business Models are Scrapping Traditional Marketing Strategies
Feb 27, 2008
New hybrid web based business models are results driven and are replacing the less profitable traditional business models.
Category: Business
Why Bodacious, Internally Generated Self Promotion Beats Boring, Checklist Marketing
Feb 10, 2008
Checklist marketing is ineffective, so just who are you kidding when you fool yourself?
Category: Marketing and Advertising
How Jacinto Ek Moo Developed His Work Ethic
Feb 9, 2008
We are what we experience and what we mostly experience is work. Here Sr. Moo describes how he developed his work ethic.
Category: Self Improvement
The Dynamics and Finer Points of Sleeping in a Yucatecan Hammock
Feb 5, 2008
When on the Yucatan peninsula, try sleeping in a locally made hammock.
Category: Humor
Where is that Mycroft Holmes When We Really Need Him?
Feb 4, 2008
Even Sherlock Holmes needed a good hint every now and then, right?
Category: Humor
My Secret Life as a Sheep Farmer or Never Say Never
Feb 3, 2008
Never, never say never...
Category: Humor