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Well, it's another week and the business cycle continues with a certain cadence. Business professionals flood inboxes in the early part of the week. Things let up by the end of the week even to the point of complete checking out on Fridays before the weekend. When you
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I like this quote from author and speaker, Rabbi Harold Kushner, "Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live
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Initiative comes with a lot of risk. If something doesn't work, then there's always the shadow of failure. But initiative is also a powerful differentiator. Most people are standing around waiting for something to happen. And if you are able to start something, then you can
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I'm sipping coffee this morning working and enjoying the view slopeside at Steamboat Springs. I have seen a lot of beginners from my suite taking some hard falls as they are learning how to turn and maneuver on their snowboards. I cringe when I see the hard ones.
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I don't think opportunities are hard to come by. In fact, every time I talk with someone, I realize, from past history, there are likely a dozen ways to do a deal or project together. The question is whether I can tune in from my own background and
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First and foremost, I want to wish you and yours a Happy New Year! I hope it's been a good one, and if it has been less than expected, I hope you're on an improving trajectory. I think that one of the great things of taking
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I can only imagine how much pushback employees at Coca-Cola gave when their management decided to pull the plug on voice mail. Can you see the arguments for keeping it around? Lots of defense of the status quo. The reality is that a whole generation is in the workforce now
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It's easy to miss the point of your work. It may not be that you have necessarily arrived or are pinned to doing the same work day in and day out. That's pretty absurd when you have access to the world at large in our connected
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The year has flown by for me and I wanted to simply take a moment and be thankful for the many blessings, friends and kindness I have experienced in this last year. When I step back, I can only smile. Life and work can get pretty exhausting and it'
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I don't think playing it safe gets you anywhere these days. Sure, you can hide behind corporate speak, a marketing image or vague statements. But that just puts you in a pile. It's a heap of unnoticed, anonymous people and messages. While everyone feels like they
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Do you remember playing hot potato as a kid? We passed the potato (or other object) around a group and avoided getting caught holding it at the wrong time. When I think about how my clients have to get through their weeks, they are playing that game of hot potato.
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I like to think big, just as much as the next person. When you are naturally conceptual, then it's easy to think about how things could be. The truth is I time travel a lot and find myself living in the future, too. When I ask people about