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Create Love Or Die
Why am I here? Why do I show up every morning? Sure, we all need to make a living. But compared to our caveman ancestors, …
What Failure Really Means
“I didn’t fail, I just did 10,000 experiments” – Thomas Edison Edison’s line is just him taking the scientist’s mindset to business. Which, of …
Start By Having Smarter Conversations
This image was originally commissioned by Len Schlessinger when he was President of Babson College. Prior to that, he was Co-Chairman and COO of The Limited. Len …
Why Engagement Surveys Don’t Do What They Promise
The consulting and HR world is obsessed with assessments. But let’s think about this whole assessments frenzy. Assessments imply that having employee data will help us …
Mindset is a way of living
“My body is a temple” sounds like something the hippie-vegetarian-yoga crowd imported from the East. Actually, the phrase originates from the New Testament, Corinthians 6:19. We all …
Congratulations Elon Musk!
There wasn’t a dry eye in the crowd watching the SpaceX launch yesterday. A testament to human potential. So we couldn’t help but think about “Create …
The one way to achieve your dreams
Winning isn’t being better than everyone else in the room. Winning is improving on your last personal best. Every top athlete knows, it’s more effective …
Be who you were born to be
Napoleon said it best: “I can always recapture lost territory. A single second of time, never.” The first thing I noticed when I started hanging out …
The future of business is here
As we all know, the future of business lies in innovation. And innovation, for the most part, is a collaborative process. And collaboration requires good …
The Extra Mile
The thing about being empathetic is that it’s not all smiles. In real life, true empathy drills down into unhappiness. You don’t just feel when …
Listening – even when what’s being said is hard to hear
Products actually create two conversations. One is internal, at your company. The other is external, among your customers. The easiest way to create the kind …
Without trust there is nothing
There’s nothing you can do to make people trust you. Except saying only what you mean. Except doing exactly what you say you’re going …
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