Category: culture
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We Are Who We’ve Been Waiting For
About a decade ago I was working a new job where it rapidly became clear that they needed a new everything. You name it, it needed to be overhauled, sourced, replaced, or jettisoned into space. We were going to need to create a property management company from scratch. Without any support of any kind. No…
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Where Winners Spend their 2%
I don’t know if you remember but for close to a decade, starting around the mid-2000s, people couldn’t shut up about Steve Jobs. This seemed to coincide with the release of the iPhone, YouTube, and social media, which makes sense. All of the content seemed to herald Jobs as Tech-Jesus. The iPod was the second…
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Intention = Better Improvement
When people ask me what they can do to move up in their career I ask themwhat they got better at this past year. Oftentimes, the answer is a blankstare. There are certain things we get better at with just routine and repetition.Back in my teenage years, I got pretty sick at spinning a pizza…
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Defend the Brand
Seth Godin’s blog post today “Defender of the brand” was a salient reminder of what we’re aiming to do. In the piece, he reminds his readers that a Marketing Officer’s first duty is to ensure the brand experience is one of quality. All the ads in the world are meaningless if the execution of the…
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The Test of a Leader
Retired USMC LtGen George Flynn has a test for leaders and it’s insanelysimple. “If they ask you how you’re doing they actually care about theanswer.” How many people above you have asked how you were and not cared a whiff? Howmany haven’t even asked how you were doing? In my experience, it’s most. And Ithink…
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“Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose” or Coach Taylor meets Sun Tzu
Everyone loves a good motivational speech and there are few better than the ones from our favorite movies. The one where Rocky says that’s how winning is done. The one where Al Pacino talks about the game being one of inches and the inches are all around us. The one in Independence Day where President…
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Lance Armstrong has a Podcast?
I subscribe (I have no idea why) to a guy who occasionally posts some interesting things otherwise out of my orbit (oh, that’s why) and one of those things today was a link to Lance Armstrong’s podcast. Did you know he had a podcast? Did you know he still existed? Me neither. I haven’t listened…
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“Rich people exploit, poor people are exploited”
Honestly, I hate this graphic. Not based on its artistic merit, but because of what the repercussions mean for those that buy into the message. If one agrees with the graphic, one must necessarily agree with the following, more than likely, unconsciously: Being wealthy is either immoral, or purely the product of luck. Since wealth is…
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Show Up. Or, Why Omelets Don’t Matter.
Note: this is a classic post from July 2012, hope you enjoy. We’re all presented with a thousand decisions in a day – even the ones we don’t make are technically decisions – and I observed a few today and I thought I would share as I feel they are: 1. Completely random – so…
Robert H Myers 