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It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.
So you didn’t come from the right family or go to the right school or have the right friends or work for the right company …
What’s your story?
Like the old saying goes, people don’t remember stats, they remember stories. Go to any cocktail party. The girl trying to impress the guy isn’t talking about …
Is your creative thinking boosting your career?
Ogilvy’s Rory Sutherland once made a great observation about the Eurotunnel, the 25+ mile underwater tunnel linking France and England. The joke was that, instead …
The Keepers Of The Old Guard
It’s quite easy, telling people what to do. What’s hard to do is all the complicated stuff. The grinding. The innovation work. Selling. Developing. Connecting …
Why People Are Unhappy
“What matters” is a strictly personal decision. Only you know. But, as we grow older, it becomes apparent that choices matter and not spending your time …
Making your company formidable.
It’s an obvious enough idea: That a company is much more than a bunch of people making and selling products, that there’s a whole OCEAN …
Learn How Amazing Storytelling Can Elevate Your Content Marketing & download the Eboo …
Our new eBook collaboration with LinkedIn & Brian Solis has just been released! Storytelling has always been a fundamental component of content marketing. One might argue that it’s the fundamental …
Think like a beginner.
The famous Zen master, Suzuki talked about “Beginner’s Mind”. “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” The …
There’s more to life than making money.
Business is by definition, transactional. After all, things are bought and sold, services are rendered, and value received. The issue is that you don’t want …
Signed, sealed, delivered
This is one of a set of thank-you cards we designed for 3000 managers at VMware; the Dell-owned, cloud computing and platform virtualization software business, to help recognize jobs well …
Fame, at what cost?
What do you have to give up to get noticed? In our pop star-obsessed culture, people give away a lot to get noticed. Their privacy, …
You gotta have faith
There’s a lot of appeal in the “Forrest Gump” school of achieving greatness… the idea of the “gee-shucks” everyman stumbling upon greatness, almost by accident. …
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