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Marketers seek to make an impact, and that takes interest. Three ways to spell the key word: Peak interest can’t get any higher. It never...

Our job as professionals is to show up and do the work. Not simply respond to incoming or do the chores, but to create and...

Ideas shared are exponential

If everyone visits a factory and takes a sample, it goes out of business. But if everyone in the community takes an idea, that idea...

The missing post

I had a great idea for a post, my best blogging of the year, in fact. I worked it all out when I was driving,...

The good china

Once you use your plates every day, they cease to be the good china. Of course, the plates didn’t change. Your story did. The way...

Chores

They’re essential. The house begins to stink if we don’t take out the garbage. But at work, while they might be essential, they may not...

What’s a “techie”?

A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this newsletter aside…” We should get clear about...

Useful assumptions for teachers

Not simply in the classroom, but anywhere we hope to inform, inspire or educate: Assume enrollment. Either someone is committed to learning or they’re not....

Skipping the good days

Part of the luxury of living near the ocean or the mountains is that you can be picky. If the surf or the powder isn’t...

Roger Bannister ran a four-minute mile by having a relay race of pace runners next to him. If he could keep up with his pacer,...