I've recently noticed that many entrepreneurs hire a "marketing person" and then end up with someone who doesn't do what they expect. Sometimes it's because they didn't realize what "marketing" means. Other times, it's because the person they hired didn't know what...
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How The Rich Are Different (Hint: Not Much)
I've found the older I get, the more I hear people talk about how some rich or famous person is so smart, generous, insightful, good at business, etc. Only these days, I actually know some of the people being placed on pedestals. I offer you this report as a public...
You have to want to succeed as much as you want to breathe. Really?
“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” That’s great if it’s your only option, but there are other ways.
The Power of Visceral Relationships
I'm having a conversation on Google+ about social media, and it connected up with an exercise I did today to produce a rather puzzling realization. Social media has certainly broadened who I know and how we connect. It's because of social media that I have met some of...
Income Distribution and the Ultra-Rich
A friend wrote to a group I'm part of: Some folks I know who are at pre-IPO companies are really opposed to Warren Buffett's support of raising taxes on the ultra-rich, saying that Buffett is helping keep a glass ceiling in place between them and being super rich....
Is The Marketplace of Ideas Turning Into a Swamp?
We take it for granted that making things easier is always a good thing. I disagree. Sometimes it is, while sometimes it isn't. Today, I've been contemplating the case where maybe it's good to make things harder. Technology has made it so that anyone can produce music...
Do we create our institutions to stifle creativity?
Our organizations stifle innovation and creativity not out of maliciousness, but out of a side-effect of the way we design and run them.
An NLP hint on writing and emotion
Using emotion in writing depends on your words and the emotions those words bring up. Choose your words to create the emotion you want.
There’s such a thing as too much convenience.
Leaving your cell phone at home for the day might be the most liberating thing you’ve done in a long time.
When neighborhood institutions die
When your locally owned stores shut down to make way for national chains, you lose the character and individuality of a neighborhood.