October 27, 2009
Microvation and the radical transformation of your job

One of the more common complaints about one’s job is the inability to “get your ideas heard.” At every company I’ve been a part of, there was a large faction of people who lament over drinks about…

October 21, 2009
The one-step servant leadership test

The servant leader is a unique and rare animal. Anyone who’s been blessed to work with a boss who demonstrates servant leadership knows what a dramatic impact it can have on employee morale and…

October 1, 2009
Leaders, Followers, and Admirers

Lots of people want to be leaders. A lot fewer people want to be followers. Being a follower isn’t sexy. No one will invite you to speak at a conference or write a book about how to be a good…

September 29, 2009
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September 28, 2009
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If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers. You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think about the story you’d seen. The truth is, you wouldn’t remember that movie a week later, except you’d feel robbed and want your money back. Nobody cries at the end of a movie about a guy who wants a Volvo.

But we spend years actually living those stories, and expect our lives to be meaningful. The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won’t make a story meaningful, it won’t make a life meaningful either.
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
September 26, 2009
Recession-proof yourself, part two: care more

Most people think that they care about what they do - they want to do a good job, want to be a valuable member of the team. But I haven’t met a ton of people who I’d say want to be the best. Not…

September 17, 2009
superamit: Squirrel Portrait Photo, Banff Wallpaper — National Geographic Photo of the Day

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Squirrel Portrait Photo, Banff Wallpaper — National Geographic Photo of the Day
September 16, 2009
1095 Days of Awesome

Of all the decisions I’ve made in my life, by far the best one was to ask Michelle to marry me. While I’m sure I could have met someone else and been reasonably happy, there’s no way my life would…

September 2, 2009

merlin:

Seth Godin: Quieting the Lizard Brain

The idea of the lizard brain is this: it is hungry, it is scared, it is selfish, and it is horny. That’s it’s job, and that’s all it does.

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“How am I gonna survive? How am I gonna have kids? Get me out of here!”

August 9, 2009
“ Did you know that now, thanks to iPhone, you can use location services to tell your friends where are you are at any given moment, and if they’re on iPhone and have that same app they can find you, and then you can then ask iPhone to tell you if there are any Tex-Mex restaurants within a five-block radius, and what movies are playing at the nearest cinema? Then you can use Twitter (or, rather, one of the 14,000 Twitter apps) to tell your followers what you’re up to, and automatically feed that into your Facebook page so that your Facebook friends can comment on your movie plans, and advertisers can scour your personal messages and use keyword searches to send target messages to each of you, and deep thinkers like Robert Scoble and Chris Anderson will reassure you that you are not just getting sucked into the maw of the brain-killing machine, and this is not just mindless time-wasting twattle but is in fact extremely profound and revolutionary and important and intellectually challenging. Because in the old days you just read books and that was so passive, but now you’re so engaged and interactive, you’re not just a media consumer but you’re also a media creator — why, in fact, you’re a public intellectual — and if you don’t fully immerse yourself in every last bit of this shit then you will no longer be participating in your culture which means you will lose your job and everyone will laugh at you because you just don’t get it and you might as well be some 90-year-old dude sitting in a pee-stained bathrobe drooling.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: Food for thought (via hellofriend) (via wintercheck) (via superamit)