Used to be, the biggest network won. When people were scattered throughout various organizations, and there was no clear way to find any of them, the person who was more ingenious in locating the “buyer” or the “candidate” was often more successful. Investors who knew just the right person to run that new company; recruiters [...]
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This is a hypothesis. I could be way off. But I don’t think so. Actually, let’s make it: Men think noun/verb, women think adjective/adverb. Now I’m probably a little less off. The idea of this struck me the other night while my wife was watching Real Housewives. I sometimes join her, until I can’t stand [...]
Let’s just get this on the table right now: I am a recovering ass hole. For twenty plus years, I was constantly told how smart I was. I went to the world’s #1 business school as an undergrad, where I was surrounded by other grade A caliber ass holes who helped me hone my skills. [...]
If you woke up tomorrow and had wings, what would you do? Go for a fly around town? Hide ‘em? Call your family with the news? Waking up with wings would bring you incredible opportunity, obviously… but it would also bring quite a few new responsibilities and also a number of logistical challenges. For instance: [...]
I got a call the other day. A friend needed help. He explained his situation and listened to my advice. Then he responded by changing the scenario. He said, “OK, I hear you, but what you don’t understand is that…” and proceeded to add a bunch of facts that didn’t change the core issue. I [...]
Life got you down? Relax. You’re an angel. Seriously. Planet Earth is nothing but a vacation for you from spirit land. A pretty extreme vacation, that is! And like any extreme vacation, you’re experience here is influenced heavily by who ends up in your group (read: family, work group, friends, etc.), by the weather, and [...]
People make their world smaller and smaller until they can understand them. My daughter asked me why more people weren’t good to the earth. She’s not yet eight, and yet even she figured out that “wasting things is bad.” Why didn’t more people act on something so obvious, she wondered? I told her it’s because [...]
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