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A Remarkably Sweet Tweet

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Snap your fingers. Nope. Not fast enough — these days, word travels even faster — sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Pete Bland (@xblandx on Twitter) has been a tremendous entertainment reporter for the Columbia Tribune for years. I look forward to reading just about everything he writes. Today, in the ‘for better’ category, [...]

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Weird, Exciting News

Home + Life

Hiya! Breakthrough’s a funny thing. You don’t really know the line until you’ve passed it. It’s been exciting for our practice - traveling to Europe, Canada and all over the United States these past few years, and we’re really excited about what the next few have in store, too. Now, with clients in the U.S., [...]

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How To Pack (A Lot) Lightly

Home + Life

I sitting at gate A10 at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis waiting to board a flight that will ultimately take me to Heathrow in London. I’m using my phone as a personal wireless hotspot via Boingo pre-paid credits. I’m charging my phone and computer while I type. Next to me sit two soft-sided Tom [...]

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“Never Too High … Never Too Low …”

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Were you aware there’s a management theory that states you need to be very careful not to praise your employees too much? That’s right - don’t give your employees too much praise. Don’t spend too much time pointing out the things they do well. It might give them big heads or cause them to start [...]

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The Natural Order of Things

Monday Meditations

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is [...]

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I’m Speaking in Columbia Monday

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After giving presentations in Columbia pert near every business day for two years back in the early 2000s, I don’t give talks at home very often any more. On Monday morning, I’m scared to death happy to be speaking in front of my colleagues and friends at my Gang of Nerds Meeting Social Media Club [...]

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Lessons Learned

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One of the benefits of being older is that people think you know stuff. Saturday, I return to my alma mater to deliver a talk to students about my lessons learned along the road less traveled by. Luckily, I’ve screwed up a lot and managed to take a few notes along the way. Want to [...]

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The Dumb Phone Challenge

Home + Life

Who’s with me? I left Illinois for my home in central Missouri at around 1pm. While listening to podcasts on my phone, I kept hearing the little ‘bing,’ ‘bing,’ ‘bing’ that notified me of new emails while I was driving. I’m not going to read them. I’m driving, right? So what good does it do [...]

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Smoking Kills (Curb Appeal)

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I had just finished meeting with a client in Illinois when I headed to one of my favorite spots for lunch. It has everything: Great ambience? CHECK. Great food? CHECK. Planter by the front door filled with cigarette butts, empty packs and trash? CHECK. It’s a shame … because all the great advertising in the [...]

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How I Keep My Email Inbox Clean

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As someone who travels and works an awful lot out of my email inbox, I make the conscious choice to keep it clean. Yep. Most every night, I go to bed with my inbox empty. No emails. This doesn’t work for everybody (my partner Roy has about 14,000 in there the last time I checked), [...]

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