Years ago, I worked at a company where we had a quote board. It was a whole section of the wall in our office wing, and it was covered in completely conversational snippets things like: ‘There’s nothing at that URL.’ ‘That’s because you typed lickmyballs.com. Try lickmynuts.com.’ That line is from the actual board, and [...]
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On Monday, LeaderTalk ran a blog entitled Tell Me a Story. Which got me thinking: here I am, telling people to treat their life like a story, and it’s been a while since I’ve told when myself. So, no lessons today. No observations, either. Just a good, old-fashioned story… which happens to be true. Locked [...]
Have you seen Mr. Smith Goes to Washington? With Jimmy Stewart? It’s a movie from 1939 about a naive idealist—Jefferson Smith—who gets sent to DC to fill in for a Senator who has died unexpectedly. Rent it. In short, it’s about a squeaky clean, naive civilian picked by a corrupt political machine to replace a [...]
Great heroes don’t seek to face destiny alone. They ask for help.
Imagine living in a house with one hundred rooms that you never explored. Kinda weird, huh? To me, living with a brain that’s capable of throwing out all these ideas and never doing anything with them feels like pretty much the same thing. Elle, how do you feel about it? Jason Seiden is Co-founder [...]
Were you grateful when you got yourself out of bed this morning? Did you thank the heavens above when you shuffled yourself over to the shower? My friend Jeff Winicour will tell you, “You should be thankful. You’re lucky.” Did you deal with some “major tragedy” today at work? Avert a “crisis”? Get caught up [...]
Manager #1: “I want my managers to think more like owners. And frankly, I know a number of them won’t like the message, but they need to hear it.” Manager #2; “Yes, I agree 100%. Plus I’d also like the day to be a morale booster… how can we deliver that message and then ensure [...]
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