When you're just starting out or when your organization is struggling or when the economy isn't hot, it's very tempting to take what you can get. You just graduated from law school and you have a lot of debt and... Full story...
At the local health food store lunch buffet, they offer stir fried tempeh. I never get it. Not because I don’t like it, but because there are always so many other things on the buffet that I prefer.
David points us to the Montague Bookmill. This is the bookstore of the future, because it's not a business trying to maximize growth and ROI.
Too often, it seems, this attitude is missing from teams, organizations or the community. It's missing because people are quick to opt out of the 'we' part.
Oleg points us to http://wordoid.com/ It's a conjugator, brainstorming and domain finder, all in one.
I stumbled on a great typo last night. "Staff in the lobby were wondering around..." Wandering around is an aimless waste of time.
Since Linchpin was published six weeks ago, I've gotten some terrific email. Most of it is about individuals who used the ideas in the book to instigate a process of self-reinvention or validation.
...is not the same as obeying the list. Do you make the list you check off, follow and work on every day? When does it get made? Who approves it? Do you identify tasks or perform them? If you had.
Old time factories had a linear layout, because there was just one steam engine driving one drive shaft.
This is deceptive. You don't rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time.