How To Gain Credibility Quickly
You're guilty. Sorry. If you advertise today, you're guilty until proven innocent. Every knuckle-dragging, chain-smoking, hard-haired car dealer who ever held their once-in-a-lifetime-semi-annual sale every month? Every furniture store that goes out of business once a year? Every jewelry store … [Read More...]
The Base at the Arch of Success
Credibility. I'll be in St. Louis Wednesday with Ray Seggern and several of my business partners teaching small business owners how to connect more powerfully with consumers. I imagine we're going to talk a lot about credibility. Heck, one of my partners, Tom Wanek, literally wrote the book on … [Read More...]
Recovering: A Guest Post By Sister
Good Day. Tim is recovering from the OFFICE DISASTER* and so I am filling in for him. I am an older, less engaging substitute, but I’m comfortable with that. I work for a micro-urban school district of 9400 students and 1500 staff members give or take. We had an incident on Friday in which it … [Read More...]
The Back Nine: Weekend Reading for May 5th, 2012
The Back Nine are stories and videos and stuff I uncovered this week that I enjoyed and felt were worth sharing for your weekend reading. Culture of Busy - Aurora's a fellow Columbia writer. I hope she can find more time to write. She's delightful. How to Find & Delegate Tasks to … [Read More...]
What’s on the minds of business owners in Portland?
Yesterday, I spoke to a sold-out audience of business owners in Portland. Here's what we discussed: If time permitted, I was going to answer their specific questions, but we covered too much ground in too little time. However, I promised if they wrote down their questions, I'd answer them in a … [Read More...]
Uncle Paul’s Grace
My Uncle Paul has passed away. My mom waited to tell us until she knew I had already flown to Portland because she didn't want me to cancel. She knew I would have. Family matters. There was a time when it didn't as much, and it's my greatest regret now. Uncle Paul was my mom's oldest brother … [Read More...]
No To A Thousand Things
Turns out Walter Isaacson didn't write the definitive Book of Jobs. Ken Segall did. I'm reading his new book - Insanely Simple: The Obession That Drives Apple's Success. The book deconstructs Apple's success in a first-hand account from someone who was in the trenches of Apple's marketing for … [Read More...]
Nine Tips To Make Business Travel More Bearable
And then ... your daughter sees you packing … and she grabs William the Bear and she tries to climb into your suitcase to go with you. And it breaks your heart. But you go, dude. You go. Here are nine things I do to make road trips more productive and bearable. Yep. I sure did. Sorry. 1. Be … [Read More...]
Leaders Wanted: New eBook Coming
Hi there. Beginning a week from today: Monday, May 7, I'll be running a 10-day series of interviews with leaders - asking each the same short series of questions - on The Daily Blur. You'll see answers and insights to one question per day. Then … the fun stuff starts ... I'm going to turn all … [Read More...]
Wise Weekly Wallpaper: April 29th, 2012
"I never thought I would have such deep thoughts that were started by a discussion on pepperoni." - Tiana Stratman … [Read More...]
1000+ The Back Nine: Weekend Reading for April 28th, 2012
In less than five days, more than 1000 people have watched the talk I gave at TEDxMU about our son. That's more than live in my hometown. That kinda freaks me out. I've gotten emails from complete strangers, emails from old friends and made new friends as a result of this great gift known as … [Read More...]
Wise Weekly Wallpaper
Wise Weekly Wallpaper: April 29th, 2012
“I never thought I would have such deep thoughts that were started by a discussion on pepperoni.” – Tiana Stratman
Wise Weekly Wallpaper: April 8th, 2012
“Often I have asked myself, “What would it be like if I no longer had any desire to judge another? Or be controlled by the judgments of others? I would walk on the Earth as a very light person indeed!” – Henri Nouwen
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