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Find Your Hill
A few weeks ago, Colleen Wainwright, aka the Communicatrix, posted a link to a youtube video of her NSFW song, The Boulder. Its refrain has been buzzing through my head ever since. Swear words aside, we each got our own … Continue reading
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“Never Pay Too Much For Money”
When I was younger, I used to go around asking everyone I met to tell me the best piece of business advice they’d ever received. I collected a lot of good quotes and tips but this one stopped me cold. … Continue reading
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The Only Way to Change
Yesterday afternoon, my daughter’s Nanny said to me “I finally get it. The only way to change is…to, well…just change.” “Yeah?” I said, smiling. “I can’t keep waiting for things to change, for other people to change, that’s never going … Continue reading
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What’s Your Vision?
For years, I’ve been telling anyone starting a new business (or diversifying an existing one) to begin by fleshing out a comprehensive vision of what they’re building. Without articulating and internalizing what you’re aiming to build, it’s almost impossible to … Continue reading
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Creative Collaboration
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had a number of conversations with clients and colleagues about new approaches to business relationships: competitors shifting into co-marketing relationships, vendors and suppliers functioning more like partners and neighbors on the food chain … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Job Satisfaction, Marketing
Tagged collaboration, communication, ground rules, managing expectations, policies
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Help Wanted
Like many businesses responding to change, my partner and I are thinking about diversifying our studio’s offerings. Before we jump whole hog into anything, though, we’re doing a bunch of informational interviews. Done well, informational interviews can be an enormous … Continue reading
Strategic Reinvention
This weekend, I’ll be presenting several seminars for the ASMP’s Strictly Business 3 conference in Los Angeles. The conference promises to be amazing – a dozen speakers, 2 keynotes, 22 workshops. The LA stop is the first of 3 – … Continue reading
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Making My List & Checking it Twice
Almost every culture views the New Year as a time to start fresh. But before we can ring in the new, we need to sweep out the old. Not just physically but mentally, too. Most of us hold a thousand … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Unstuck, Job Satisfaction, Productivity
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Snow Days
After working hard all morning, I glanced up and realized it’s snowing outside. Growing up in California, we never had snow days but in the 20-some years I’ve lived on the East Coast, I’ve come to love the concept. Snow … Continue reading
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Change & Irrelevance
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less. ~General Eric Shinseki I came across this quote while working on an article for a new seminar called Strategic Reinvention that I’m developing for the ASMP’s Strictly Business … Continue reading
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