I think most of us remember Herbert the elf from the holiday classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Herbie wasn’t happy making toys and he wanted to instead become a dentist. While the end of March may not be the time people are thinking of Christmas cartoons, I’ll admit to feeling a little bit of Herbert [...]
Today I was catching up on some old articles and read a blog by Jason Bakker about geotagging and social networks.
The gist of it was, as smart phones get smarter, GPSs get more ubiquitous and businesses engage more in social networking, we’ll enter a networked age where you’ll be approached with coupons, offers, and incentives [...]
Last time, I talked a bit more about the idea of having a Main Effort, that you focus your energies towards. To recap very briefly, the Main Effort is where you think you have your best chance of success. A big point I made was that the Main Effort can change as developing events affect [...]
A few months back, I did a short article on “Focus of Effort,” which in turn was mentioned as the “Main Effort” in an even earlier article on the Five Paragraph Order. One thing I didn’t mention is that your Main Effort can shift as the situation develops and I wanted to look at that [...]
A trusted acquaintance of mine once shared a Don Wilder quote: “Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” So while making excuses is a bit pointless, I think an explanation for my prolonged absence is in order.
Since the end of September I’ve been negotiating to buy a house. On November [...]
Hi all,
It’s Friday again and I must confess that I don’t have an update handy. This weekend I’m heading down to San Francisco for a class on the history of 20th century warfare and I’ve been reading hundreds and hundreds of pages on the subject over the past couple weeks.
It’s all very interesting stuff, but [...]
I heard that one from someone I really respect.
Yow. Has it really been a month? I guess so. And I guess I could’ve shared some of the interesting stuff I’ve been working on this past month in lieu of articles.
I published the September newsletter for my Toastmasters club.
More importantly I did a [...]
I’m going to step completely out of topic for a second. This isn’t an essay on leadership or marketing. But I’m reading the book version of the 1980s Joseph Campbell “The Power of Myth” and it’s a good time. Really getting my brain going.
Particularly, I’m thinking about the bit in [...]
Not everything you do at work is project-oriented; everything doesn’t have a beginning, middle, and end. Some things are ongoing and require your attention every day. Sometimes a management task doesn’t lend itself to an involved process. At times like that, it is helpful to have a “yardstick” handy, a maxim that [...]
Don’t Forget About Competitive Advantage
