by Stan Phelps | Jan 10, 2023 | Pink Goldfish, Yellow Goldfish
This is amazing! Dutch retailer Jumbo Supermarkten has created “slow checkouts.” Hat tip to Wendy Lloyd Curley for sharing this pink goldfish with me yesterday. Called “Klets-Kassa” (translated to Chat Checkout) these are...
by Stan Phelps | Feb 8, 2022 | Purple Goldfish, Yellow Goldfish
What’s large, noisy, and claustrophobic?It’s a magnetic resonance imaging machine. MRI’s are unnerving for adults. My good friend and fellow speaker Peter Agiovlassitis just had a bad experience in one this past week.It was going well as Peter...
by Stan Phelps | Jul 2, 2021 | Yellow Goldfish
Forrest Gump didn’t create the smiley face. Harvey Ross Ball gets credit for that moment of genius. An artist and ad guy, Ball was commissioned in 1963 to create a graphic to help raise morale for employees of an insurance company that had been through a few tough...
by Stan Phelps | Mar 5, 2021 | Yellow Goldfish
Years ago Doug Dietz wrapped up a project working on a brand new, beautiful GE MRI machine. While he was proudly waiting to see his design live in the hospital he encountered a young patient about to be scanned. She was clearly terrified, tears rolling down her face....
by Stan Phelps | Feb 1, 2021 | Yellow Goldfish
Happiness is the ultimate WHY, the most sustainable competitive advantage and the ultimate currency in the Purpose Economy. It offers a competitive advantage because when we buy, work, and live to pursue and attain happiness; we buy more, work better and live longer...
by Stan Phelps | Jan 11, 2021 | Yellow Goldfish
Happiness is an emotion that people feel in response to their needs and whether these are met or exceeded. Marshall Rosenberg expounds on this in his book “Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life.” He shares: “There are no positive or negative...