Category: Influence
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The Social Media Deaf
There is something about getting an @ reply to you from a brand or an author. I have thad great tweet conversations with some great companies and authors. It’s always a great feeling when they recognize you. Now, this isn’t anything new, but businesses that don’t listen to the chatter…
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Take Them at Interface Value
I got this line from Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together. Whenever you first meet someone – anyone – you are probably interacting with one of their projected identities. It is important to realize that this as you get to know people. It is important to take them at interface value.…
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Restorative Solitude
I’ve written about Loneliness and Solitude before. Lately, I’ve been reading about the restorative power of solitude. Intentional alone time can refresh the body and renew the mind, but we live in a world where we can be on all the time. We have the opportunity to work every hour…
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LL44: Because Rocks Don’t Talk Back
I had an interesting interchange with a prospective student yesterday. We ran an event on campus for our Leadership Program – which I currently direct. As part of the visit day, our prospective students had to complete certain initiatives, and my leadership students would make observations about each student. The…
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Creating Culture
……..is never about one person. Don’t get me wrong, I think one person can start it. One person can be the impetus for creating culture, but it takes more than one person to create it. It’s about a bunch of people being about one thing. It’s great when it comes…
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The Not-to-Do List
Have you ever thought about it? Just last night I was updating my “Tasks” list on Google. It quickly filled up. But there should be a “Not to Do” list as well. It’s just as important to identify the things that you should not do. Whether it’s watching tv or…
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Searched for “My Heart Hurts”
I was reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book The Thank You Economy last night. He wrote about engaging people in social media – around ideas that you might be passionate about. His expertise is wine. Mine would be identity. I did a search.twitter.com search for My Heart Hurts. I was blown…
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If You Wanna Be Lonely
…….then always be right. Do you know someone that always needs to be right? I think I can be like that. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think that being right all the time is necessarily a bad thing. Don’t lie. I think that makes it bad is the need…
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On Fitting In
Society isn’t kind to those who don’t fit in. We ostracize, we call names, we harass. – Seth Godin in Poke the Box. As soon as I read that, I immediately thought about some of my posts – Be Unique, but Belong. Seth is talking about leading and poking the…
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Good Decisions
An employee once asked the president of the company – what did he did that eventually gave him the opportunity to become the president of the company. The president said, “Make good decisions.” Great advice, but as he thought more about it, he wondered how someone learns to make good…
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Masters
I had a great Twitter conversation with Hugh MacLeod @gapingvoid – about masters having students. He said: gapingvoid Hugh MacLeod All masters have students, whether they want them or not. That’s why they’re masters. We then had this Twitter conversation about teachers and masters, and how they were once students.…
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