Category Archives: Focus

Apr 17 2013
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Defining Need.

Business school did a great job of pounding into our heads that we were to leave, go find a need, and find a way to fulfill it.

The challenge now is in wrapping our hands around the ever-evolving definition of need.

We’re finding that the further we travel up Maslow’s pyramid the more difficult it is to put our thumb on and fulfill these needs.

Could it be that the postmodern entrepreneur’s role and responsibility is to build lodging at the top of pyramid for his customers and co-workers?

I think so.

Experience, connection, and meaning has to be the aroma, sound, feeling, and taste of whatever we build from here on out.

If you look around, that’s where we’re as hungry as we we’ve ever been.

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Apr 15 2013
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Faces and Spaces

Where’s the so-called middle man? The promoter, the publisher, and the “retailer”. Hard to find him, isn’t it?

Our network economy has become the middle man itself. The web is now the middle, the market, and the space where the magic happens.

Think about it. In a way your book sits right next to Stephen King’s book on Amazon’s shelf, your album is in the same iTunes jukebox with U2, and your ideas are one click away from Einstein’s. This was not the case in 1995.

This entry is for our awareness in the commercial shift from places to spaces.

We must realize the economy of the world is not headed towards more physical places, but rather ONE space we can interact, produce, create, communicate, and share in.

You and your ideas don’t need a storefront, they just need to connect with the right people and ideas in the space we call the web.

 

 

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Apr 12 2013
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Helpers

Hope helps perseverance endure.

Gratitude helps reduce the swell of pride.

Steadiness helps keep you in the race.

Vision helps shape your future.

Awareness helps accelerate serendipity.

Commitment helps fight the urge to surrender.

Attitude helps the flavor of your response(s).

Priorities help ensure progress.

Use and pursue these helpers. They’re here to help.

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Apr 11 2013
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Conventional Wisdom and Green Jackets

Conventional wisdom is the body of ideas or explanations generally accepted as true by the public or by experts in a field.

But it has a hard time predicting what really will unfold.

It didn’t plan on Wichita State being in the Final Four.

It never saw the potential for a billion Facebook users.

And it has a hard time defining and wrapping its hands around art, beauty, experience, fulfillment, and meaning.

So why buy into it?

Why pursue it at the cost of losing everything you are actually after?

Metaphorically, all of us want a green jacket in something. But here’s the deal – all of the green jacket owners you have seen or know have taken very unconventional paths to get there.

Shape your shots and release yourself from the crutch of conventional thinking.

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Mar 29 2013
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Engaging With Now & A Universal Ring of Keys

There are keys you can turn right now in a number of doors that will move, make, or break moments 5, 10, and 100 years from now.

The challenge of engaging with this moment right now is actually believing that this dot called March 29, 2013 is a doorway to a dot called March 29, 3013.

It is.

It very much is.

Sure, there are billions of doors that we don’t hold the key to. I get that. Somewhat peaceful isn’t it?

However, I’ll argue that we forget or don’t realize how many universal keys we carry in our pockets and never use.

Where are your keys? Connects the dots.

 

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