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Category: Ideas

  • Want a Free Book

    There’s actually a ton of them available.  You just have to know where to go.  I’ll share one with you.  It’s a Seth Godin book.  I believe it was his second one.  You can download the whole thing for free – in pdf form.  Just click here and download it.…

  • When to Not Look at Facebook

    I want to start a new series of posts – I want to call it When to Not Look at Facebook.  I’m not sure how many of these I can come up with, but here’s the first one. When you want to watch the game at night and you don’t…

  • Walk the Walk

    I was in Barnes and Noble tonight, and I picked up a book.  I ended up buying another book – Clever – I forget the authors, but this first book that I was looking at had a line in it.  I think it was about leadership, but the line was…

  • Kate Gosselin’s Identity Formation

    She was all over the news this morning.  I guess she was on the Today show.  I only heard the clip over the airwaves this morning.  So many people out there aren’t big fans of her or Jon, but they still talk about it (because it’s easier to talk about…

  • Perspective – 71 degrees

    It was cold today in San Diego – 60’s I think.  I came home tonight, and it was cold tonight – nevermind that I was in a t-shirt and shorts, it was cold.  When I came into my house, it was warmer – 71 degrees.  It felt warmer compared to…

  • Fantasy Football Identity

    I’m not sure what I really want to say about this, but when you ask someone how they are doing and they answer you with their standing in their fantasy football league – there’s definitely an identity that is playing itself out in it all. I think that it’s perfectly…

  • Coaching the Team or Coaching Himself

    Coaches can coach for them team or coach for himself. In the first instance – when the team wins, the time wins. In the second instance – when the team wins, the coach wins. In the first instance – when the team loses, the team loses – but the coach…

  • The Age of Specialization

    About 5 years ago, I went to a conference where the theme of the conference was this idea that we are moving into the age of specialization.  It takes years to plan a national conference so really this idea was something that a few people cooked up 6+ years ago.…

  • LL21: Always Find a Way

    Leaders always find a way.  When people can’t figure it out – when there isn’t anything else that anyone can do – leaders find a way.  Leaders don’t quit.  Leaders don’t really give excuses for why it can’t be done.  They figure it out.  They use their creativity and perseverance…

  • Who Do You Work For?

    We asked this question this morning in a meeting.  It was very interesting to me what we came up with.  You can either work for a person, for an instituation or organization, or for a vision.  I can say that I work for my boss.  I work for San Diego…

  • Getting a Divorce

    This is what I saw on the back of a car tonight on the way up to Orange County to pick up my wife.  This car was all decorated like they had just gotten married.  It was all over the back window of the car.  It was all drawn up-with…

  • I Am My Friends

    Did your parents ever tell you this?  To be careful who you hang out with because you are or you become the company that you keep. I was thinking about it, and I tried to list out some of my friends and the company that I keep.  There are few…