Just about the time this newsletter goes out, 3am est, the snow is supposed to hit in earnest bringing us 5-9″ here in Washington, DC. As it is a Monday the kids will have another day off from school, an extension of the weekend. This is the next in a long series of snows that […]
Last week I was in Tampa with a group of colleagues. We meet every five months or so to help each other with our business strategies, all solopreneurs like myself with advanced practices. Almost as soon as we gathered we created a visual that we called the Axis of Vulnerability to describe our work at
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What makes the special bond between two beings? Here is my daughter Ruchi sleeping with Betsy, our Cairn-Bischon mutt. The day Ruchi first arrived in our house from India she was enamored with Betsy, petting her and covering her with blankets. Apparently the feeling was mutual because Betsy let her do these things. Over the last 2
Last week, just after an engagement in Puerto Rico, I visited my good friends, Donald and Rosie in Vieques, which is a tiny island off the coast of the larger island. I crossed the water in an 8-seat plane. It was a parenthesis inside of a fabulous business trip. Donald and Rosie took good care
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When I focus on something intensively, I often find that there are three stages that repeat themselves: Building capacity Repetition and refinement Breakthrough I have been rediscovering this through my recent pursuits in weight lifting. First I had no capacity. I just could not do some of the exercises that I wanted to do. So,
Excerpted from my Feb 10 presentation for business leaders in Washington DC.
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When you listen to the news they talk about the state of the economy. But, there’s a problem with that. There are really two economies at play in today’s market. There is the traditional economy and the creative economy. That’s what Steve Denning told me last week and I agree with him. The traditional economy is
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The reason membership organizations must focus on innovation is grounded in the fact that every business is now in the knowledge business. What was once a differentiating value proposition—that member organizations bring together professionals in a particular discipline for networking and education, in other words knowledge activities—is being disrupted. All kinds of enterprises provide the
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In 1969 Mae West negotiated a contract after a 26 year hiatus at the age of 76, in which she got top billing over the leading lady, Raquel Welch, as well as a handsome fee and the ability to write her own lines. That’s her at 76 to the left. It was a long way
Last night my daughter, Ruchi, made her first batch of pancakes. But, it wasn’t just her first set of pancakes, it was the first meal that she cooked beginning to end without an adult hand in the mix. I was close by to make sure the gas burner was handled correctly and the oil in
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