Friday 6/24/11 is “Take your Dog to Work Day” and PR professional extraordinaire, Maura Hoffman, has been successful in her efforts to pitch a fun story to the Buffalo News about our working golden doodle girl, “Porsche.” The star of the Sassy Design Group photo with designer Ivan Ereiz and president Sherry Sutton is Porsche, who normally is the biggest glamour girl and ham for the camera, was afraid of the camera with the big flash! Go figure. Fun anyway and a nice way to start the day!

Whenever we buy new clothes we tend to forget about what we already have in our closets. We got dressed just fine before we went shopping, but now we forget about those days. Then all of sudden we see something, our old favorite shirt or pair of jeans and we realize that we can take our old clothes, mix them with our new clothes and create an even better wardrobe.

Microsoft just released this cool infographic which has a lot of statistics about how many people use smart phones, who uses them (it’s not who you think!) and how they use them. Really intriguing numbers for the marketing folks out there! The growth and usage of mobile devices is truly astonishing… check out these numbers

I often think about ways to help people – in life as well work – understand the importance of a “plan”. Now plans don’t have to be big, long, or gradiouse… just enough for us to see how to get from Point A to Point B. This is a comment quoted from Mike Tyson of all people. Not someone I normally think of for sage advice.

Jeffrey R. Immelt, G.E.’s chairman and chief executive: Strategies are useful, he says, but only if they can quickly adjust to nasty real-world surprises. “In the words of the great philosopher Mike Tyson,” Mr. Immelt says, smiling, “everybody has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.”

Well said Mr. Immelt and right on Mike Tyson!

The question was: “Do Germans need a gender quota? Germany debates requiring a percentage of women on corporate boards. The article states that “Women hold just 2.2% of the leadership positions at Germany’s top 100 corporations, a study by the German Institute for Economic Research found, compared with 15.7% of the top jobs at Fortune 500 companies.”