Remember when summer used to mean time for play? Have you lost that playful feeling? Before fall rolls around, let’s see if we can get a bit of it back. Hugh McLeod of Gaping Void recently reminded me that there is no purpose without play. As anyone familiar with nursery rhymes knows, all work and…
DetailsFull confession. Seth Godin is getting to me. Every day he inspires me and I just have to act (aka blog). A recent post goes to the heart of what makes a business brilliantly successful. And it’s not the strategy or the product. It’s Feet on the street. And, I would add, it’s not just…
DetailsYou think I’d prefer peanuts? It’s often said that people give to people. So true. And people are funny. Our behavior is ruled by emotions much than logic (remember the difference between irrational humans and logical Vulcans on Star Trek?). With most of us, hope springs eternal. We seek a brighter future. A better…
DetailsGive me one moment in time When I’m than I thought could be When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away And the answers are all up to me Give me one moment in time When I’m racing with destiny Then in that one moment of time I will feel I will feel…
DetailsJust because you’ve always done it one way doesn’t mean you should continue to do so. This week Seth Godin exhorts us to adopt a new paradigm in Strategy Matters More Than Ever. It’s not what you do (the potentially bren thing) but how you do it (the potentially bren process/attitude) that separates winners from…
DetailsDoes this box need anything else to fill it? Or is it good to go? A recent post by the inimitable Seth Godin poses the question What’s in the box? The point of the post is to make us question our quest for perfection and all the needless worrying we put into imagining every thing…
DetailsEmbrace the centrality of content marketing to your success; then simply tell stories. Stories draw us in. They make us want to be transported. That’s all there is to it. Duh! I don’t see a lot of articles I wish I’d written, but Why content marketing will make your small business sexy is one of…
DetailsGo down the road of ‘good enough’ Do you suffer from ‘term paper syndrome’? Do you mean to revise your website or write a funding proposal, but don’t because you feel you don’t have enough well-researched, referenced content? Do you mean to post to your blog regularly, but don’t because the several half-finished articles…
DetailsWithout music, life would be a mistake. – Nietzsche Today I’m thinking about voices. And how we “give voice” to our feelings and values. And how we “voice our objections” and/or our support. And how, together, we can “make beautiful music.” And how, apart, we feel disconnected. When we’re separated from a d one,…
Details“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there” – Lewis Carroll When we simply engage in incidental cultivation and stewardship – a meeting here, a party there – the only place we get to is the meeting or the party. Is that our goal? If at the end of the…
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