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...
In the face of significant change and opportunity, people are often one of the three. If you're going to be of assistance, it helps to know which one.
One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that.
Here's the spec. If you build it and it's great, I'll use it and I'll blog it. A while ago, I posted about the talking pad and a modern version of it.
If you've ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling. People are just begging to be told what to do.
We're traveling around, finding interesting people and asking them to riff for a minute or two about what makes someone indispensable.
If you're a hunter, are you wasting your gift chasing shiny but ultimately worthless objects? And if you're a farmer, are you wasting your resources by planting and nurturing a crop that's fashionable but without real value? It might be.
I visited a favorite restaurant last week, a place that, alas, I hadn't been to in months. The waiter remembered that I don't like cilantro.
50,000 years ago, civilization forked. Farming was invented and the way many people spent their time was changed forever.
The Lemonade movie is so professional, engaging and inspiring that you've probably already seen it. If not, here it is.
Who will save book publishing? What will save the newspapers? What means 'save'? If by save you mean, "what will keep things just as they are?" then the answer is nothing will.