source - Seth Godin on the tribes we lead | Video on TED.com

Some of the most basic things regarding change is being able to influence small groups of like minded people towards a cause. these small groups can multiply the efforts towards change provided that the tribal leader steps up to the role and drives the vision.

This video perhaps tells nothing new, but today's society and technology makes the possibility of tribal changes become a lot more effective.

This is an interesting experiment on subliminal messaging. Check out this video as it speaks for itself.

Here is a collection of things that Google does in the office. Well, i need not tell you that Google is one of the most successful companies in the last decade. But how do they do it? From time to time i like to take a peak at the Google-culture and try to understand what makes them tick...

So her goes:

First, they have this rule or motto - "Don't be evil". This was revealed in a playboy interview of the Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Some excerpts:

Where are our heroes today? Or more importantly, WHO are our heroes today?

I am asking you - the ordinary Malaysian wannabe success story. Sorry? Did you say Steve Jobs? Was that Bill Gates? Ooopss I am getting geeky... but in reality I heard nothing of that sort. I heard some whispers of some people wanting to be some well connected politician.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about the challenges faced by finance managers in the world of business.

These are some fairly serious philosophical discussions. There are no right or wrong answers, but what is right for the circumstances and for the individual. I won't bore you my dear readers (all two of you) on this particular site, but if you'd like to engage in philosophical or hypothetical discussions of financial & management topics you should go to my more serious website called "f.i.r.m. | financial responsibility and management network".