Sunday afternoon Twitter exchange: Better business is all about better managing of expectations… Hmmm, same as life. #funnyhowthatworks March 25, 2012 3:12 pm via TweetDeckReplyRetweetFavorite @walkermckay Walker McKay @colarecruitbn @walkermckay might be blogpost in there somewhere. Basically, keep expectations low, everything is then a surprise or no big. March 25, 2012 4:32 pm via HootSuiteReplyRetweetFavorite [...]
Seth Godin says something interesting that I want to, need to hold onto: Add into that the fact that were living much longer and careers are becoming more flexible and its pretty clear that in just about every cultural respect, fifty year olds are living, acting and looking more like thirty year olds every day. [...]
Have you ever watched Twitter for the daily calendar updates? Fridays are the best, the day of the week everyone is glad to see, what they’ve been waiting and working for all week long. The burdens of the week’s to-do list are forgotten in the rapture of Friday. OMG TGIF. Tuesday is not good, but [...]
Ever stop to think about what you’re doing and why? about what we as a nation are creating and why? So here’s a tiny hypothesis: maybe the real depression we’ve got to contend with isn’t merely one of how much economic output we’re generating — but what we’re putting out there, and why. Call it [...]
Have you thought about what success means for you right now? Satisfaction is keeping us from our best work I think it was Steven Pressfield who said that if you do something long enough, if you get serious about any craft (including writing), there comes a time when it begins to “kick your ass.” When [...]
I’ve come to a theory that most of us don’t do things THE BEST WAY. Instead, we typically do things THE WAY IT FIRST MADE SENSE. Maybe it was a good teacher, or well-written process instructions. Maybe it’s something you figured out on your own. Whatever way you learn, that’s most likely the path you’ll [...]
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess? – Joshua/WOPR, WarGames Here in South Carolina, constituents are being blitzed by ad campaigns from GOP candidates for President of the United States. A handful of commercials on TV tout the plans of their candidate. Mostly, the [...]
It’s the first Monday of the year. Most of us probably have today off as the “official” celebration of the holiday in the workplace. I’m happy for that – bowl games today (GO ‘COCKS – SC Gamecocks vs. Nebraska in the CapitalOne Bowl), some good food, one more slow coffee-filled morning, and a good day [...]
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