Links to previous posts from Incentive Intelligence dealing with this issue...2009 Will be a Problem for Incentive Travel Awards...Is Your Incentive Program "Senate Ready?"Damned if you do... Damned... Summary Only. We had some issues with links and such in the full email subscriptions so we're tryi...

Image via Wikipedia A month or so ago the press was ablaze with condemnation for AIG because they held a group travel award for independent agents in California at the Monarch Beach St. Regis Hotel.  The press had a field day highlighting the expense of the trip - $20K for spa treaments, $7k on gol...

What a way to start a Monday.  I could feel it coming on.  I knew it was going to happen and I couldn't help myself.  The bile was rising in my throat and I had to take a step away. I composed myself and came back.  I came back to post a comment on an entry at Human Markets calle...

The light bulb has been used as the symbol for an idea or for innovation for a good number of years.  Roger Van Oech - inventor of the "Ball of Whacks," author of "A Whack on the Side of the Head" (and other creativity-starters) and the blog Creative Think, has reposted a bl...

(Author note:  I've reread this post six or seven times wondering if it is too negative and have debated publishing.  In today's "prosumer" environment I'll leave it to you - comments welcome.  Is it?) I'm stomping around the office (which is the dining room today - I'm in D...