“Smoking killed far more people than terrorists ever did. It’s just not as dramatic.”
You can thank Seth Godin for that loaded byte. His post on the power of slow change makes a great point: single events don’t crush anything; series of events over time do.
On the one hand, you’ve got something to be happy about: no individual act is make or break for you. So stop treating it that way.
… is to make consensus your goal. An individual person has amazing ideas. But people only know how to dilute ideas. A person is bold and adventurous. People are just scared and boring. A person can easily follow his gut. People depend on a vote. A person can get something done by tomorrow. People can’t [...]
This leadership lesson from a dancing guy and Derek Sivers captures so many principles it’s ridiculous.
Need some perspective? Let Jeff Healey give you some perspective.
Looking for a New Years’ Prediction List? Too bad – they are a waste of time. Stop predicting and starting preparing for the unpredictable.
Your team wants you to tell them what the strategy is? Do you know it? Do they know it?
When the tribe speaks, you have to listen. Success in business today resides in tapping into the right tribes.
A leadership lesson from Ted’s Montana Grill in Atlanta.
It’s rare for the person with the answers to just speak up. But if you know the questions to ask, you can prompt the people with the answers to share them with everyone else. And when they speak up, you know what to do, and they feel empowered.
In the spirit of the clean slates, resolutions and Auld Lang Syne’s of the New Year’s Eve, here’s my bit of advice for you: Go disgust yourself. Really. Take a good look in the mirror and realize just how disgusting you are. It’ll do a lot more for you in 2009 than vowing to lower [...]
