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A dialogue with purpose
So, when one is fighting the business culture war (i.e. trying to build an amazing culture at the office), one question you need to ask …
Stop worrying about the robots, and start worrying about people.
You spend a couple of decades, your hear a lot of people in business with all these very fancy plans. Fancy plans, the majority of …
Feeling ordinary?
Numinous, as in, having a strong religious or spiritual quality. Touched by a divine presence, as it were. People find God all the time on …
Have you had your Shawshank moment yet?
Everybody loves the movie, The Shawshank Redemption. The protagonist, Andy Dufresne, played by Tim Robbins, has a problem. A BIG problem. He’s an innocent man who’s …
Experiencing self-doubt?
You know what the best thing about being an entrepreneur is? That you never have to experience self-doubt, the way people with normal day jobs …
Word of Mouth
Bill Bernbach famously said, “the best advertising is word-of-mouth”, and this was from the best advertising creative guru in the country at the time. Word-of-mouth …
A different kind of empowerment
Empowerment is one of those many flavored words. You can put an identity in front of the word and it can take on rich nuance …
A shared sense of purpose
When you look back on the business you’ve created, what will be the thing you’ll be proudest of? It won’t be the money. After a certain …
Does tech liberate or enslave us?
Like everybody else ‘round here, you probably spend far too much time in front of a screen. At first, it freed us. Then later, it …
CULTURE CULTURE CULTURE
So you’ve probably wondered recently, why is the idea of company culture suddenly such a big deal in management circles? Why does HBR keep going on …
Welcome to the hustle
So, if young adults no longer have the kind of money to support a life of conspicuous consumption our generation did, what takes its place? …
Accept the pain and do it anyway
And what is an artist, anyway? The self-congratulating slacker who looks the part holding a paintbrush? Or the entrepreneur who put his butt on the …
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