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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 …
The Secret to Starting a Movement
About a decade ago, the “Turn your brand into a movement” idea started becoming fashionable. And why not? Why wouldn’t you want to have an …
Rise Up!
If you’ve read a reputable geopolitical magazine like The Economist in the last forty years, you’ll have read a lot of articles about the “Rise of something“. The rise …
Check yourself before you wreck yourself
The thing about work is that you’re going to encounter a bunch of people you don’t get along with. But you have to get along …
Do you have a winning mentality?
When you were a kid, tying your shoes was hard. Spelling was hard. Math was hard. (Math is still hard). But as you move on, the …
Want to know how to turn change into a movement?
We all know that data science is all the rage, here to stay. The next thing we need to do is establish sustainable principles for …
What is your alternate reality?
We were surfing the archive, now probably 12-13,000 images, (interestingly, all designed to solve problems) and came across this oldie but goodie. When you are …
Where is the real joy?
One of the things we affluent, supposedly happy Westerners suffer from, is that we like to make our lives far too complicated. We take on …
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