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Generalists vs Experts

An expert is a fanatical person who spends their life toiling away at a single thing. Quite frankly, this is something that most of us …

Happiness = Success

Yes, this is about “Mindfulness”, which as we know, is all the rage these days. We love Shawn Achor’s fabulous TED talk on the subject, “The Happiness Advantage”(16 …

What gets the people going?

About a decade ago, the “Turn your brand into a movement” idea started becoming fashionable. And why not? Why wouldn’t you want to have an …

Fill in the blanks

There’s no romantic way to explain how to grow as a person. The only way to do it is to, you know, push ahead. …

The inevitable failure of avoiding failure

There’s two kind of failure: Smart failure and stupid failure. Smart failure is when you allow yourself to learn from your mistakes, and try …

A pretty good performance metric

“No one is indispensable. It’s just to what degree are you harder to replace.” Lynn Taylor, workplace expert, has a piece of advice: make sure …

excellence needs recognition or else it finds it elsewhere

My presence is a present

He might not always say the right thing, but when he does, he says it best. Kanye West spoke for the workforce when he …

I’m Going To Be A CEO

“I’m going to be a CEO!” She said. As if she almost meant it. Shouting at the universe is great. Nailing down the steps …

Measurement of character

What marks a good leader? Compassion. A strong leader is able to reach out to others, to show vulnerability, to work well with others …

Keeping the client busy

The best innovators don’t create need: they answer needs. We’re creating for the consumer, after all. And, while we need to profit, we also need …

Let’s begin with “Thank You”

This cartoon came out of a conversation with Peter Diamandis (co-author of “Abundance”) a few years ago at Joe Polish’s Genius Network event. “Abundance” is a compelling and optimistic view of …