AI: Your New Teammate
Radical Inclusiveness - the Competitive Edge
Outstanding Customer Service is a Culture Thing
Expertise, Hubris, and Success
Are You a Great Merchant or Just Shopping?
Why does Verizon's Purchase of AOL Matter?
Website Innovation: Beyond Cookie-Cutter to Business Value
The Importance of Experiences
Your (Character) Slip is Showing
Who Says Purgatory's Just for Catholics?
It's Just Conflict
Tell Better Stories
It's not enough to sell a product or a service any more. You must also be able to tell the story. The Pip Storytelling Deck is a tool we use at the Werx Brands to construct and tell better stories. You can be a master story-teller too!
All of the Responsibility, None of the Authority
Simple But Not Easy
Embrace the Internet to Increase Business Value
The Gift That Keeps On Giving? Technical Skills
Molecular Transformation Begins at Home
Are You Writing Your Own Obituary?
Past Time for Change - A Post to the Jewelry Industry
Change Mismanagement
A Reflection on our National Obsession with Mediocrity (and what it means for business)
What's "Fair" Anyway?
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Strategy
It's surprising how many people are not aware of their reasons for doing things. They think they know, but when asked to reflect upon it, they don't. Why are you in business? Why are you pursuing this role? Why are you frustrated, lonely, anxious, doubting? Why are you making this decision? Why aren't you asking for help? If you ask why before deciding what, who, how, or when, you will come up with a stronger answer every time. In business, why is the essence of strategy. In life, why is the essence of progress.
Taking a knee ... Long the choice of peaceful, PRAYERFUL resistance.
At the end of the day, we all have to fight our demons alone. And I think that's the source of loneliness. If you spend your whole life insisting there are no demons to fight or hiding your demons or determined to fight them in private, you end up existentially alone.
Perfectionism is a luxury for (starving) artists, or artists with benefactors. The rest of us must learn the difference between being in love with our own ideas and being in love with progress.
I sometimes wonder what our country would be like today if Christians had thrown themselves into eradicating poverty or inequality with the same energy they invested in fighting abortion.
Well, Catholics pray to saints," I mutter to myself as I begin my nightly prayer to RBG.