Dear Email Recipient, Please find the enclosed message where I will confidently and aggressively articulate my point of view in a way that I would never consider doing if you were...
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If you are reading this, I’d say the odds are pretty good that you’ve seen “The Social Network,” the 2010 blockbuster movie that gave its viewers a...
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What is really new anymore? If you tell me the latest new thing, I’ll tell you what idea was innovated to create it. Tell me about Vine and I’ll tell you about...
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I spend a lot of time writing as a millennial in a leadership role. While truly a millennial, my experience is different than many other millennials and my age puts me closer to a...
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Jan 30, 2013
“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) from the essay Self Reliance Consider This: Works of genius don’t come from great ideas. They come from guts. It’s true, you need a great idea in the first place – but...
Jan 28, 2013
Society has long made us feel that it is our mission to stand out, to be unique. For so many reasons I agree with this. We are all unique and those differences are a great part of what makes our lives so fulfilling and so diverse. When we lead it isn’t about us or our individual differences but rather about everyone and our ability to generate...
Jan 24, 2013
I can’t help but chuckle, albeit to myself when I speak to a business owner, manager or sales person who identifies others in their industry as their only or primary source of competition. If you have read this blog for a while you would know that I am an avid believer that our competition comes from far more places than our industry, and further how we are...
Jan 21, 2013
Having spent the majority of my time in Senior Management working in either “Start-Up” or “Turn-Around” environments, I assure you I have delivered more than my fair share of negative news. Whether it has been rejection from VC’s or other investors or coming to the realization that the company is going to have to make personnel...
Jan 17, 2013
If you have read this blog for a while you would know that I tend to write more about leadership than anything else. However, you will also hear me regularly talk about the limitations of leadership when you don’t have the resources required to execute. Understanding capabilities and setting budgets accordingly is key to continuing leadership forward and...
Jan 13, 2013
Do you know what your business has in common with every other business on the planet? Here is a hint. It is you. No, I’m not saying that you are part of every business on the planet, but what I am saying is that you and every other person in an organization are all human. Simple enough right? Ironically it is this commonality that makes our...
Jan 9, 2013
There’s an age-old saying in the business world: “What got you here, won’t get you there.” It relates to the continued search for how to take your business, yourself and your ideas to the next level. When running a business it is normal to find yourself continuously inundated with the daily grind. That can be enough to keep any person busy for 12 hours a...
Jan 3, 2013
There are a plethora of reasons why a plan or an idea isn’t delivered the way it was intended. It could be a bad plan, the wrong people or poor communication; But if I had to isolate one reason more than any other that results don’t wind up coming through “As Promised” it would come down to a shortfall in setting proper expectations. I’m sure many...
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