This will be an additional running commentary and brainstorm about what we can learn about business and people via real life dramas. This feature is in addition to our regular Brain Storm! podcast and blog. Business is really about people, and the more we know about them, what they want, how they act, what motivates them, what makes them successful, the better communicators and influencers we can be. I have heard that real life and even fictional literature can teach us much about human nature - good and bad. Even if the story creates caricatures out of it's characters, making the good guy really good and bad guys wholly bad when people are normally a mixture of both, it can create an excellent basis for a study. Shackelton himself was such a mixture, as history later reflects.

We will base this on Ernest Shackelton's journey on the Endurance to the South Pole for an expedition hoping to be the 1st to traverse the Antarctic on foot. In 1915, this was a huge feat, and what the captain and crew underwent will teach us volumes about people and how to handle situations that are governed by circumstances outside of our control.

One of the things I noticed first of all was that this entire project came into being because the last great challenge had already been accomplished by someone else - I believe it was to reach the South Pole. The only thing left was to traverse the Antarctic on foot. This crew wanted to do it for Britain because this land had been claimed for Britain, and Swedes and Nords had been the ones to successfully accomplish the other feats

One business lesson to be learned was, when putting the project together, they found the people with a lot of experience in this type of research and adventure. Also, when he started making preparations, he did them quietly, and not until he thought he had secured enough money pledged to conduct the expedition did he make it public. However, after applications had been received and items and boats had been purchased, funds disappeared... [Read More!]

Thought this would interest those of you receiving this via podcast...

News Articles
TVEyes Announces Podscope®
The First Engine to Search Within a Podcast
Proprietary Technology Applicable to Video Blogs and Personal Videos

Fairfield, CT (April 11, 2005) -- TVEyes, the real-time broadcast search provider, today announced Podscope®, the first engine to search within a Podcast. TVEyes’ Podscope, which makes every word searchable within a podcast, enables the audio indexing of podcast content, which is equally applicable to video blogs and personal videos. Podcasts are essentially downloadable radio programs distributed through RSS that can be put onto a digital media music player or iPod. Podscope will be generally available later this month.

TVEyes, which has been indexing television and radio broadcasts since 1999, crawls the web with Podscope looking for podcasts and creates an index against every word, thereby making the contents searchable. The user can search on a term, generate a list of results ranked by a variety of methods to find the most relevant podcast and click to play or click to download.

“With a looming explosion in such user generated rich content as Podcasts and video blogs, there is a growing need to empower consumers to find and subscribe to programs that meet their diverse interests,” commented Allen Weiner, Vice President and Research Director at Gartner. “Searching and indexing these varied audio and video programs will not only benefit content-hungry consumers, it also adds legitimacy and velocity to this burgeoning space.”

About TVEyes

TVEyes, headquartered in Fairfield, CT, has been indexing television and radio broadcasts since 1999. It is the first company to deliver real-time TV and Radio search across multiple languages on an international platform. Services are provided to a wide range of users in both consumer and professional markets including Government and Law Enforcement Agencies. The company uses a range of proprietary technologies to index audio feeds that allow Radio and TV to be searched by keyword – just as you would use a search engine for text. The TVEyes Professional service offers personalization features and can be configured for large deployments in corporate environments. The technology is completely automated and all feeds are captured on a 24x7 basis. More information on TVEyes can be found at http://www.tveyes.com or http://www.podscope.com.

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