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Three Things That Make Great Bands Great, That You Could Learn From
I have been reading a lot of music biographies lately. Musicians fascinate me. I am enamored by music and in awe of talented performers. I am finding a lot of commonality among exceptional musicians (and creators in general).
1. It takes [...]
Posted in Creativity, Personal
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Ruby Revolution Rebuttal
Mark Turner has made a great response titled “Ruby never powered a revolution” to counter my recent post “Ruby is Just a Bunch of Tools“. Excerpts from Mark’s post bold.
“I decided he was wrong.”
Mark, I am never wrong. However, I [...]
Posted in Agile, Creativity, Integrum
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Notes From Fierce Leadership
Quotes and notes from Fierce Leadership by Susan Scott.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinions. — Jack Kerouac
Your most valuable currency is relationship. Emotional capital.
Conventional measures of business success shouldn’t be ignored. Human [...]
Posted in Community, Creativity, Productivity
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Rituals Help us Form Emotional Connections
Random note, likely from a book I read. Loved the thought and the implication.
“In all my years helping companies develop and strengthen brands, there’s one thing I’ve seen time and time again: rituals help us form emotional connections with brands [...]
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Four Principles of Collaborative Consumption
The four principles of collaborative consumption:
trust between strangers
power of idling capacity
belief in the commons
critical mass
I get to work at trying these out daily in my work at Gangplank and often times helping transform development organizations while consulting at Integrum. I [...]
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Sunday Book Review : The Element by Ken Robinson
The Element: A New View of Human Capacity by Ken Robinson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is a must read for anyone who is questioning what they do for a living or gives a shit our educational system. Robinson [...]
Posted in Creativity, Education, Sunday Book Review
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Opening Lines From Great Minds
It is no secret, I love books. One of my favorite things to read is autobiographies. I enjoy them because I love to hear the authors reflect back on how they got started. A glimpse of what made them who [...]
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The Creative Virus Known As Gangplank
I was invited to be on Your Triple Bottom Line, a radio show in the Phoenix market on KNFX 1100AM to talk about Gangplank. I had a great time with the hosts and the experience of doing live radio was [...]
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Want a Different Outcome? Change Your Focus.
Feeling stuck in a rut? Wishing your company was more successful? Thinking your start-up should have a million users already? Does it seem like you can’t get where you want to be?
Our brains are pattern matching machines. Have you ever [...]
Posted in Creativity, Productivity
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Passion Fuels Greatness. Apathy Fuels Mediocrity.
Borrowed from Sir Ken Robinson‘s 2010 TED talk. There are two types of people in the world.
Those that simply endure what they do. Can’t wait for the weekend.
Those that love what they do. Their work is who they are.
To do [...]
Posted in Creativity, Personal, Productivity, Startups
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