We’re busy. Busier, probably, than any culture has ever been. And leading is hard. It takes work, and it carries no guarantees that the work will bear fruit. It might lead to nothing more than unhappy followers. No wonder most of us don’t want to do it. Instead, we wait for the leader who thinks […]
There are moments it’s hard to tell the truth. When the boss asks about the project we haven’t finished yet, when the police officer asks how fast we think we were going, when our child asks us to come upstairs and play after a long day’s work when all we want to do is sit […]
I discovered a long time ago that two people can dedicate their lives to solving a problem and come to radically different solutions–both of them right. The interesting part comes after: do they hold on to the solutions they worked so hard to create, refusing to budge from what they know is right, or do […]
As I write this, protests and occasional riots are still occurring in Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. The protests started in response to the killing of a black teen by a white police officer. The teen may have been robbing a convenience store at the time. You can easily find news reports on […]
Seth’s Blog: Authority as an excuse for complacency. Every single one of us is guilty of this. It’s in our nature to look to the folks we think know what they’re doing and trust them. For a very long time, this was the only option. Any time a group of people gets bigger than a […]
When the Truth Is Your Only Chance « Peter Bregman. Peter Bregman is a business writer who does a lot of work for the Harvard Business Review (warning: link will take you to one of those annoying “skip this screen” ads before you can read the article). This article says a lot of the things […]
We have more control over our lives today than ever in human history. We live in heated and cooled homes with reliable electricity and water, we drive cars that allow us to travel in almost any conditions to obtain food from stores that are constantly stocked with anything we might want, we have high-tech clothing […]
Seth’s Blog: Perfection or exploration. If you are in business on the web (or anywhere else), and you don’t know Seth Godin, you need to get to know him. He is probably the Internet’s foremost marketing genius–but his work really isn’t about marketing. It’s about producing great work, surprising and delighting your customers, making whatever […]
Courage isn’t always easy to find in business, whether you’re looking among individual contributors or managers. After all, we’re taught from a young age to keep our mouths shut, follow directions, stay in line, wait for permission. Much easier just to follow the rules and let others take risks than to take them ourselves–we gotta […]