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The Noble Truth You Must Live
In Viking times, when young men reached that awkward stage (too old to be a kid, but still too weak to fulfill the duties of …
Business Norms are Cultural Norms
It’s always interesting to see how norms change, and how behavior, at scale shifts over time. Here is a story about the ad industry that …
Where is our humanity?
Just because folk like us are using say, Amazon more often, doesn’t mean our need for human contact has lessened. To quote Deb Schultz, “Technology changes, …
The Simplest Key To Success
It’s a funny thing about disruptive technology. Sometimes the tech isn’t actually that disruptive. Take Airbnb, it’s totally disrupting the hotel business. But if you look at …
The Key To Being Competitive
Let’s assume your company’s product or service is world-class. (NB. our friend Seth Godin thinks there’s no point being in business unless it is, the world is JUST too …
How A.I. will manage your health
For the last couple of decades, preventative medicine has been an increasingly big deal. Long-term, it’s much cheaper to stay healthy than it is to …
7 Signs Your Job is a Poor Fit
At some point in our work lives, many of us will find ourselves in the wrong job. Specific fault can be difficult (and likely …
Become A Better You
So it turns out it’s not enough to discover self-awareness. One must also experience self-management. See, that’s the trouble with finding God on the mountaintop. Eventually …
Why You Should Never Stop Learning
Most people reading this will want to be happy and successful, however you wish to define it. Fair enough. So it stands to reason that most …
Please Don’t Just Fake It
Something to consider when playing the culture game… Companies have both “ideals” (prescriptions for how people ought to behave), and what are called “norms” (how …
Lest We Forget
Factoid: In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson famously wrote about “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. Notice how he didn’t say, “the pursuit of pleasure”. …
CULTure anyone?
Is your company culture cultish? Having a strong company culture is certainly a competitive advantage (to paraphrase Napoleon again, good morale is worth fifty thousand …
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