Have you read Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell? Here is a quick rule that he talks about.  In short, the key to success is to spend 10,000 hours in your craft, art, sport, profession or skill. Translated that is equivalent to five years of a full-time forty hour work week. We tend to say an Athlete [...]

Subscribe in iTunes Seth Godin Medicine Ball Session Podcasts Lisa-Marie Cabrelli -Podcast interview & Blog. Erica Dhawan-Podcast interview & Blog. Jeff Ullrich, Earwolf Media-Podcast interview & Blog. Paul Farmiga, Jim Fitzpatrick and Bill Self: Roundtable Podcast discussion. I just completed a three-day course, workshop, event, guru-session with the famed business thinker Seth Godin. There were roughly [...]

Good people last-they cannot be moved. Eugene Peterson They finish what they start. They cannot be swayed or convinced to operate in any other manner. They are the same person at work, at home, and alone.  No room for duplicity. Most of what they do is seemingly insignificant. They are few. You can be one [...]

A+B=C The shortest distance from Point A to Point B is a straight line. What if life doesn’t work this way?  In mathematics it is true, but is it true in life? Let me tell you a story. Me and a buddy had an idea for a company in 1999, cubicleplanet.com.  It was going to [...]

-call one more time. -wait one more day. -breath in and out. -remind yourself it’s worth the sacrifice. -try something outlandish. -ask for help even though you think you know the answer. -hold your breath, wait, exhale, repeat. -think of how you will feel in a week when the pain is over, but the goal [...]

I heard a great Sales person depiction this week that seems worth sharing. Picture two Sales people, like two boxers. The lights go down, the announcer shouts with beat thumping music accompaniment  “Let’s get ready to rumble…..” The Prize Fighter shuffles down the aisle toward the ring.  A gaggle of his support crew all wearing [...]

You have $10,000 to invest in one of two technology companies. They have the exact same business model, competing against each other in the same market space. You are looking to maximize your return on investment in two years. The differentiation is the management team’s approach to work environment. Company #1 is traditional Company #1-believes [...]

I can’t say enough about this concept of recruiting great talent.  In this article from Fast Company, the writer drives home the point that today’s digital talent isn’t driven by salary amounts or your employee cafeteria. Instead the liberators and heretics of the digital workforce are motived by the chance to change the world. Great [...]

Our interpretation of circumstances in our lives can be heavily influenced by the evidence we see every day.  What was said, what was not said, moods of other people, our finances, the weather, our health, our children, our boss, etc.  These often have tremendous impact on our experience and conclusions about our days. Do you [...]

Full article- “The study found that 70 percent of employees are now either disengaged or under engaged at their job”. And are you surprised?  Look around you.  How many of the people that you work with everyday are what you would call “engaged”?  Are they bringing their best?  Am I?  Are you? What if tomorrow, [...]