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Category: Ideas

  • 10 Billion Tweets #10,000,000,000

    Did you see how many tweets were about the 10 billionth tweet.  It was quite interesting to see the tweets of people watching tweets.  How crazy is that – that we would watch the tweets as entertainment.  I mean, it is a pretty interesting idea, but how crazy is that…

  • Strategist and Tacticians

    I posted a few days ago about Strategy and Tactics. I’ve still been thinking about it because of some of the podcasts that I’ve been listening to. Some of the podcasters are Strategists – they talk about the deeper thinking about whatever the topic might be. They can wax intellectual…

  • What We Teach

    I work at a school.  What do we teach?  Yes, we teach writing, reading, and math.  Sometimes we teach art, singing, and creativity.  But because it is a formal education setting – not the schola of old – we teach compliance.  That’s what we teach.  Do this for a A…

  • You Can Grow Without Losing Your Soul

    That’s a line that I heard on a show that I watched last night (that’s where the Starbuckian post came from) – it was a show on Howard Schultz and how he created a multi-billion dollar industry.  He capitalized on multiple movements going on in our culture (growing green, gourmet…

  • Starbuckian #starbucks

    How’s your Starbuckian?  If you’ve worked at Starbucks – you don’t count.  You get/got paid to speak and understand it.  But for the rest of us that haven’t worked at Starbucks ever – how’s you’re Starbuckian. Did you know that there are 55,000 variations of coffee drinks that you can…

  • LL29: My Area is the Most Important

    If someone works for you… and they are passionate about what they do…. and they absolutely love their job….. and they don’t get that there’s a whole organization to plan for…. and they are under resourced and over worked…. and they work hard….. and did I mention that they are…

  • Strategy and Tactics

    This is a simple idea.  Most people already know this, but this one idea really made a ton of sense to me today. It is not possible to talk about strategy without talking about tactics, and vice versa, you can’t talk about tactics without keeping the strategy in mind.  I…

  • Need Drama 2

    I wrote a post awhile ago about how we all need drama (click to check it out).  We all need drama, but the thing that makes it interesting is whether you deal with your own drama (because we all have it) or other people’s drama.  It’s much easier to deal…

  • Johnny Depp’s Identity Formation #JohnnyDepp

    I am fascinated by identity and what it does to people. I was reading an article on Johnny Depp and his relationship with Tim Burton. They’ve done a few movies together, and this particular article was exploring their relationship. It was filled with Identity Formation insights – mostly for Johnny…

  • The Lone Nut

    I follow Derek Sivers on his blog.  He did a presentation at TED on leadership.  It’s pretty cool. A leader needs to the guts to stand alone and look ridiculous.  Then the first follower comes.  It takes guts to be the first follower.  The first follower turns the lone nut…

  • The Water Levels are Changing

    But I’m following it on bjpenn.com.  He’s not a news guy, but he’s there in Hilo.  Gonna watch the guy on the ground, not the people in the news room.  Even the news room is watching the skype camera that bjpenn has set up on his website.  How crazy is…