You know a word is overused when it becomes part of someone's Twitter handle, as in @janesmithrocks. Whatever happened to imagination and creative writing?

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Why Management Guru, Tom Peters, Responded to My Tweet

Not long ago, I read a post on Tom Peter’s blog that I enjoyed, where one of his points was the futility of planning ahead.  I tweeted about it, referencing the blog post: @tom_peters advice for Living Life to the Hilt http://ow.ly/8FTzj <–wisdom that only comes w/experience      One of my Twitter followers responded…

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Part 2: A New Roadmap to Building Something Big and Lasting

The startup phase is tricky, because we can fool ourselves that we are making progress, when we are not. This is one of the many lessons I'm taking away from the book, The Lean Startup.  This is the second part in a two-part posting about concepts in the book that are making a difference for…

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A Time to Bloom

Spring is my favorite season.  It's a time of re-birth in nature. Every year in late February, I smile when I see the dull green of daffodil shoots poking up above the mulch.  By March the yellow bouquets are gracing my front yard, followed by bright red tulips, that are wider than they are tall,…

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Part 1: A New Roadmap for Building Something Big and Lasting

The sign of a good book for me is one that I wish I had read years ago.  So it was for Pam Slim's book, Escape from Cubicle Nation and more recently, with Jonathan Fields' book, Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance. Those books covered familiar territory and their insights resonated deeply,…

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