Category Archives: Inspiration

Boss-ing versus Leading

This.

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Servant Leadership – a Prime Minister cleans up his own spilled coffee

The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, sets the highest examples to leaders everywhere.  The people there will never, NEVER, forget this. THIS is servant leadership.

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Turning employees into stark raving fans

A simple idea with difficult implementation.  Making your employees stark-raving fans.  The issue?  Leadership shortcomings.  The value of turning employees into fans can’t be better expressed than in this blog post from Tony Robbins: ARE YOU TREATING YOUR EMPLOYEES LIKE … Continue reading

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Some people were raised by wolves | Why we can’t have nice things

Yesterday was a sad day.  LLBean, the iconic Freeport Maine-based clothing company, had to amend its famous return policy: WHO DOES THIS?  Who thinks it is appropriate to go to a yard sale, buy a pair of used slippers and … Continue reading

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The importance of integrity

Most of what we do in life and business is done without legal or contractual cover.  In this wild majority of situations you are trading with your integrity.  Your integrity and the effect it has on your overall reputation is … Continue reading

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Fresh ingredients, easy recipes – The Fresh 20

If you’re a headline reader you can stop here.  We recommend you click on the logo for The Fresh 20 above and check it out.  My thoughts are summed up as: Great idea, simple but excellent execution, really hope she’s … Continue reading

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Attempt to fundamentally disrupt rocket technology = Stumble?!?!?

Disclaimer:  I am a huge fan of Elon Musk and SpaceX. Earlier this week I am reading the Wall Street Journal and I find an article by Andy Pastor titled, “SpaceX Stumbles in Test to Show Reusable Rocket Technology Advances.” … Continue reading

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Gratitude: Water skiing in the morning

This past summer I was fortunate to meet Darren – a new friend in my neighborhood with  a shared passion for water skiing.  With most of the buzz/activity/marketing focused on “-board” sports (e.g., snowboard, wakeboard) it was great to find someone … Continue reading

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<CTRL><ALT><DELETE> This blog and its (new) purpose

Life brings with it a number of reboots/restarts.  I find this comes with major life changes including: graduating from high school (moving out of your parents’ house) graduating from college (making your own rent payment) job changes epiphanies This blog’s … Continue reading

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Reacht usability testing: THANKS!!!

This week was “alpha week” (aka, get it out week, live user testing week) for our Reacht (@reachtapp) application.  We’ve been in testing mode with real users for a while but this week we invited a larger group to experience and … Continue reading

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