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Contagious and infectious trust
Trust is like a laughter. It’s infectious. No, it really is, it spreads like a virus. Which means the opposite is true: that fear and …
Ride your own wave
If real change is going to happen to your company (and you as a result, QED), you can wait for the stock market to lose …
Celebrate Small Wins
Mindset is everything. As we do our work, it is easy to assume the worst: People are lazy, their intentions aren’t good, they lie. You’ll …
You’re talking to me?
“I’m a firestarter.” Really? “I’m a ninja.” Really? “I’m crushing the normally staid world of ______. Really? Call me old fashioned, but when did we …
Decide what you want to be
Companies are like people. They don’t start getting what they want till they start knowing what it actually is that they want. Do you want …
The Golden Road to Unlimited Customer Devotion
The what you make, and the how you make it, are obvious – definitely to you, hopefully to others. The reason why, however: that’s problematic. In …
Over and over and over
Back when I was kid, my music teacher told me that it’s better to practice your instrument five minutes every day, than for an hour …
Good ideas have lonely childhoods 2017
This illustration has the opposite thesis to my first book, “Ignore Everybody”. That is, once you’ve come up with your big idea, don’t expect your friends …
Count your blessings
Counting one’s blessings is a good thing. Not only do the gods smile upon it, it turns out that it’ll make you tangibly happier in the …
Check yourself before you wreck yourself
Any fool can be mean, or pushy, or selfish, or any of the seven deadly sins, really. What’s REALLY hard is keeping oneself in check. …
How To Out-Care Your Competition
My Canadian buddy, Jeph Maystruck had an excellent talk I was privileged enough to hear two years ago, “How To Out-Care Your Competition”. His thesis was simple; your …
What would George Orwell say about your Facebook addiction?
“Like many unemployed men he spent too much time reading newspapers”. George Orwell made that observation about somebody back in the 1930s, though he could’ve …
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