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Planning…leads to action

Years ago, Peter Drucker said that “action without thinking leads to failure." As I have been thinking about planning over the last few weeks, I have been diagramming ideas to help you cut down on your errors in the planning phase. I think successful planning comes down to 3 things: 1. Outcome based thinking… 2. […]

What is a failure?

I think we all think about failure… Or, I can say that I do. What no one teaches us about failure, if they mention it at all, is that we are all failures at things…that’s how we learn. We don’t really learn from our successes, but we learn from the errors we make on the […]

We Are All Project Managers….

If you look around the business news, you will see a lot of success and failure. And, what becomes apparent if you look closely enough, everything is built around projects. Which means that we are all project managers now…and that changes the calculus of how you should approach your job and your career.

6 Questions on Perseverance with Paul Jun

This is the first in my series of 6 question interviews with people that I admire, work with or think that they have an interesting perspective on a topic that I want to explore more. The first person I am going present is Paul Jun. He writes a blog called Junhax. I first found Paul’s […]

Just Kids and Inspiration

I just finished read Patti Smith’s book Just Kids over the weekend and found it to be one of the most captivating books I have read in a long time. I’ve been a fan of Patti Smith’s music for a long time, but really gave no thought to the path she took to become […]

Take a Look At Yourself, You Are a Risk Taker

Granted, I stole the title from a section in Seth Godin’s new workbook based on Poke The Box, but the sentiment is still mine and true to you. In the workbook Seth calls everyone a risk taker. Then, he asks you to think about what you have done that could be considered risky. […]