Storytelling
The Crier, The Glue, The Word, and The Arrow
Go back a few hundred years and if you wanted to get the word out you may well
have chosen
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The highs, lows, and lessons from building something from scratch. Stories and insights to help you turn ideas into action—and action into something remarkable.
Resources
How to articulate your vision in 4 post-it notes
Here’s an exercise I picked up at a dinner event I attended this past weekend.
It’s intended to
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5 x Why, 5 x Who
You may have heard about the 5 Whys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys].
It was originally developed at
Stage Left
Design Thinking: Culture and Contraceptives
One of the first initiatives the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation launched in
Africa was supplying contraception to women who
Portfolio Career
Managing the feeling of being scattered
A feeling of being scattered is pretty common for people seeking to carve out
their own path, especially those with
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Employee of the Month
It’s really easy to let our inner critic run riot.
The negative self-talk, the comparison trap, that nagging feeling
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The key to spreading your ideas
In last week’s episode of his Akimbo podcast, Seth Godin tells a story about
blue tit birds.
You can
Coaching
Trust, Lock-in and Switching Costs for Coaches, Consultants, and Advisors
This is post is about lock-in.
Let’s get the Urban Dictionary definition out of the way first (it’s
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What do they remember you by?
Positioning, Storytelling and Epitaphs for building a network and career
One of the inevitable obligations for celebrities launching a new
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When is it hard to do, or easy to finish?
This can often be the case for freelancers doing work for a client.
Hard to do as it’s not
Stage Left
Why Penn & Teller ignored the audience
One of Penn Jillette’s least favourite terms in show business is ’this works’.
It’s easy to let the
Future Of Work
Location Arbitrage
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Go back 15 years or so and this was only a serious day to day consideration if
you were an
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Knowing what's more trouble than it's worth
A friend was recently given a cheesemaking class as a gift.
The class focused on how to make the soft
Podcast
4 Podcast Trends for 2019
A few hunches I have for the world of podcasting in the coming 12 months.
1. Awards Shows: Podcasting categories
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Being Typecast
There’s an episode of Entourage where Ari takes Vince and the crew to an LA
Lakers basketball game. Courtside
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Demo Night
Taking my career building project Fondo out of the studio for the first time.
New York City’s Canal Street
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Lowercase skills
You may be familiar with concepts like T-shaped or I-shaped people to help
simplify the way we think about skillsets
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3 elements for making deals as a freelancer or consultant
Today my pal Tom came over to my place for lunch. [1]
Tom is a digital marketing & strategy consultant,