I received an email… My friend Mark sent me an email in response to Monday’s post – Define the why. It was an email that made me stop and think. He challenged me to go further. To not just say, “Why?”, but to say why in the context of a belief statement (or mission statement). He […]
3 Jim Henson quotes for your business, art and life.
This Thanksgiving, the latest installment of the Muppets – The Muppets – hits theaters. Here is the latest trailer: I was excited to share this trailer the moment I saw it. A personal connection. I grew up with Kermit and the gang – during their heyday (late 70’s through the early 80’s). The Muppet Show […]
Escaping the Killer D.
Yesterday, I shared that the US is beginning to go back to our old ways of increasing debt, and that no studio ever needs to be in debt (and showed why). Find that article here: Return of the Killer D. The truth is that many of us are in debt already, so how do we […]
Return of the Killer D.
The killer D is debt. According to a recent USA Today article, 2 years after seeing debt decrease and savings increase, the trend has reversed. In the US, credit card debt is up 368% from 2 years ago. While this may be good for your business in the short-run, it will be bad for you and your […]
Take your business to the next level: Define the why
Simon Sinek has given, what I feel, is one of the best TED talks ever. Despite some technical difficulties and low-tech methods of sharing, Sinek gives a 20 minute talk that wraps up why some businesses fail (or fail to be incredible) and other businesses are GREAT. You can watch the video at the end […]
Wrapping up The Collective
I’m always amazed at where traffic come from each week. Some weeks it’s obvious an influential person shared via email, tweet or Facebook. Other weeks it’s a great post that goes viral. This week it was a month old post that gained new life – Amy Knollmeyer’s Real Life Example of Growing a HS Senior […]
Authority is earned.
That’s it. Nothing fancy. Nothing flowery. The title says it all. Authority is earned. If you want respect from peers, clients, friends, the industry, family, spouse, then earn it. If you haven’t received the authority you feel you’ve earned in a business, job, relationship, etc then you have 2 choices. Do what it takes to […]
Steve Jobs wasn’t always GREAT. Thank God he learned.
I had an interesting conversation with a guy on Twitter over the last few weeks about Steve Jobs. It boils down to this: He believes that Steve Jobs has always been the GREAT visionary leader that the world sees him as now (and the world saw him as such 10-15 years ago when he took […]
Focused intensity over time = Steve Jobs
I think we can all agree in Steve Jobs we lost a great innovator and business leader on Wednesday. That night as I watched the news coverage of his death, I was struck by 2 things. Jobs was the definition of what Dave Ramsey describes as his Momentum Theorem. What could we create if we had […]
Reclaim Monday morning, or how to escape from past success.
My love/hate relationship with Mondays. I write this on Monday morning. My office is behind a beauty salon, which is closed on Mondays. I love Mondays because it’s quiet. I can think easily without having to block out the sound of hair dryers, clippers or local gossip. Monday also seems to be the day I […]
