When looking for a career, consider this: What is going to make you happy long-term isn’t the salary, isn’t the perks, isn’t the social status. …
Marketers and Engineers ❤
We live in an Internet age, which means we live in an age mostly built by engineers- ergo, we live in a very engineer-centric world. …
Your Best Business Case
Conventional wisdom says, if you want to make social change from within a business, you need to make a business case for it i.e. you …
What Lives Forever?
In 1819 Keats famously wrote, “Beauty is Truth, and Truth, Beauty.” The trouble with that is Beauty is very fleeting. Which means, if it’s the …
Buffet’s Number One Secret.
You’d think Warren Buffett, being one of the richest men in the world, would be one of the busiest men in the world. You know, …
How to change your life in an hour a day
When people in religious orders wake up to pray at sunrise, they often refer to this special time in the morning as spending time “With …
Remain Open To The World
MailChimp is one of those unassuming, useful services that millions of businesses use. Besides having a great product, Mailchimp is a wildly successful company. It’s got hundreds …
If In Doubt Be Helpful
People want to be successful. So they ask themselves, “Am I any good?” In a world where talent gets an increasingly large slice of the pie, this …
Your Record Collection
It was back in the day, in my mid-twenties, when I building my collection of jazz records. My office in Chicago was just down the …
How to Be a Successful CEO
Think of some of the most famous CEO’s of our time: Jack Welch, Richard Branson, Lee Iacocca, Tony Hsieh… We’re not just talking “successful” as in, …
Are your emotions actually worth anything?
Today we are talking consumers. As we all know your success hinges on their perception of value. And where does value come from? Emotion. In …
The reality of meaning
We’ve been saying “Meaning Scales” for years. Which is another way of saying, running a small mom & pop business can be just as meaningful …