I heard my dear friend Rick Loy state a quote a few nights ago at the Roaring Lambs banquet that is, ironically, quite powerful: We all know that intention is powerless. Thankfully, Rick has also written a post on the same topic, so enjoy. I’m guilty of banking too much on intention. My gut tells [...]
I was shocked today to find so many posts under the WordPress tag “Leadership” that also dealt with Christianity, the church and spiritual issues. It’s encouraging, really. But not expected. I have no real observations, other than this: Are churches today preaching more about leadership in life? Or is this simply a ripple from the [...]
Just being busy doesn’t make you productive. Just being productive doesn’t make you effective. Just being effective doesn’t make you successful. Just being successful doesn’t make you a leader. Too many people think erroneously somewhere in the midst of the misconceptions listed above. Success requires leadership, but it does not produce leadership. Leadership requires vision, [...]
Here’s a fact: no matter how great an idea, we can all get a little overwhelmed, whipped or both with the implementation of our strategies. Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, the little details to pull of your great ideas will get to you eventually, at least from time to time. And it’s [...]
Pioneer is just a fancy name for failure. Other synonyms are trailblazer, innovator, groundbreaker, leader. I know what you’re thinking: “Pioneers are celebrated. They are heroes. They are successful.” But there’s no way you move forward into uncharted territories without making mistakes. Lots of mistakes. Really big mistakes. In other words, failures. But the difference [...]
Does a day go by at your office that you’re not reminded of the system, or process, or procedure, or protocol? Yes, they’re all important, but they also have one thing in common: Their very nature is to create ruts and habits. Say what you will, but ruts and habits don’t often produce new ideas. [...]
You don’t need to know all the answers. In fact, you’ll be better off if you don’t. You need to know the questions. 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 [...]
Tag clouds are pretty cool. And they’re pretty telling about whatever it is they’re describing. A tag cloud basically takes all the tags (or categories) you write about and then represents the number of posts under that tag by the size of the font. Looking at my tag cloud, it’s clearly about marketing, followed by [...]
Disclaimer: This is NOT a typical social media mantra that is making the point that word-of-mouth/buzz/whatever marketing is alive and kicking. There’s enough of that as it is. This is a case of stating the obvious: everyone thinks they are a marketer. Everyone thinks they know what makes people buy something. What ads works and [...]
Disclaimer: This is NOT a typical social media mantra that is making the point that word-of-mouth/buzz/whatever marketing is alive and kicking. There’s enough of that as it is. This is a case of stating the obvious: everyone thinks they are a marketer. Everyone thinks they know what makes people buy something. What ads works and [...]
