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Let Them Be Their Best Selves
Bill Bernbach was known as the most creative force ever in the advertising business. And he was. He literally was to advertising what Newton …
How Do You Win?
How do big companies win? How do small companies win? How do your startup ideas win? The secret sauce is being helpful. Finding people, and giving …
Trouble For Startups
The US Census Bureau came out, and its not-so-good. Startups are drying up. It used to be that you could make a business. You wanted …
Excellence Needs Recognition
When a culture turns poisonous, the best people leave. The best people have options and they know it, so they get out while the …
Hierarchy of hiring
T/F: Anything can be taught. False. Big false. Lots of things can be taught, especially if we’re talking skills, but soft skills are something …
Happiness vs Pleasure
Our friend Seth Godin wrote about the different sciences of happiness in his blog. “There’s happiness, and then there’s pleasure. Pleasure works on dopamine. Little hits at …
What’s love got to do with it?
The media loves to write stories about the big guys. The big CEOs running the big companies, with billions of dollars changing hands and …
Watch out, it’s contagious
Think about it: the word, “culture” is derived from the Latin “colere”, which means “to grow”. Which also means, a great culture is not …
It’s a joint effort
The advertising titan, Leo Burnett once famously said, “Great ads don’t care who wrote them”. Leo just wanted a great ad to show to …
Motivation, it’s what we’ve got
Action without inspiration is worth little. Inspiration without action is worth even less. So that is your assignment: to find a way that allows …
StartUp Land
Jeff Bussgang over at Harvard Business School wrote a book about how to join a startup. His reasoning: to help you find a job with a …
All talent wars are culture wars
According to Gallup, 70% of employees are not engaged with their work. That’s another way of saying, 70% of people working do not “own” …
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