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Work labels: word salad and connotations
A couple of weeks ago I had a drink with someone who’s done some great work in
their field.
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Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Switching to Annual View
Whether we’re coming fresh out of a salaried role or have spent years out on the
road as an
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Lucky Number 7 - and a 40-degree day
Many of us are captivated by the number seven. It’s supposedly lucky (more on
the reasons behind this were
Creative Business
Two types of role model
When we think about role models, the person or persona we aspire to emulate, our
minds will usually go to
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Positioning: Get Uncomfortably Narrow
A lot of entrepreneurs and freelancers struggle with positioning.
Often it’s ironic as the work many of us do
The Tension
The Vessel & The Lens
Last week I had lunch with a friend who, like me, is a recent graduate of a
coaching certification program.
Learning Innovation
KPIs: The slide snap
Here are couple of simple KPIs for all the teachers, facilitators, and keynote
speakers out there.
1. How many times
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Sampling: You don’t know it until you’ve tried it
Why the Hitchhiker’s 3 rules of technology reactions permeate far further
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide
Adventures #30: Milestones, Deadlines, and the space between
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Dominant Design
When the car company uses dominant design, they may not even know they’re doing
so.
When they see the
Writing
A simple way to get unblocked
You probably know the feeling: that project you’re working on just spins round
and round; nothing moving; no new
Mindsets & Growth
The perils of a chain reaction
Our well-intentioned but misguided desires to root for the independents.
A couple of times a week I’ll walk with
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22,000 songs in your pocket
Back in 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs uttered his now legendary one line pitch for
a new product his company
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The Circuit
The challenges — and the importance — of being out on the road, in the middle,
on the circuit as a creative
Learning Innovation
Are you running a meetup or a workshop?
The corridor of uncertainty, and not getting what you came for.
A few weeks ago I ran a pilot of
Learning Innovation
Back to business school: the new case study
Almost every form of school and education is getting questioned, queried,
unbundled, and rethought.
The same is happening in business
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Freelancer to Entrepreneur: The Forest, The Mountains, and the Water
Imagine a landscape. It has a forest on one side and a mountain range on the
other. The two are
The Tension
Labels In, Labels Out
We’ve always had labels in one way or another.
First, the label tended to be the same as the