Category Archives: Leadership

Mar 19 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Leadership

The Rome De Facto & The Problem That Follows

The Rome De Facto is the adopted thought that essentially states – what wasn’t done today can be done tomorrow. AKA – Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Of course “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

This phrase can get us into trouble if we’re not careful.

Daily, we get distracted or detoured towards that big thing (Rome) we’re all after, but the Rome De Facto allows us to pat ourselves on the back – while simultaneously believing that tomorrow just may have 25, 26, 27, or 48 hours to finish, mend, or make what wasn’t today.

Sure, 24 hours didn’t build Rome, but it was built day, by day, by day, by day….

Tomorrow will attempt to convince you that it is adequately prepared to build the walls that should have and could have been built today. It’s lying to you.

Whatever your Rome is, it should be more accessible, more traveler friendly, safer, and even more sharable today than it was yesterday.

If today is done right, your just a few short tomorrows from your Rome needing a suburb.

2 Points:

  • Comparing your project to the construction timeline of Rome belittles the significance of today.
  • We’re given these little things called days that add up to a big thing called life, and you don’t want to look back in 5,10, or 50 years and have fallen victim to the Rome De Facto.
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Mar 16 2012
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Business, Discipline, Focus, Leadership

Clearly Defining Yourself

Have you clearly defined yourself?
Can you specifically say this is who I am, where I’m going, what I’m about, and why I’m here?
We rally behind those who can answer these questions about themselves.
It’s a ‘Ziglar’ move from a wandering generality to a meaningful specific when you are clearly defined.
Not to mention it makes difficult decisions and getting out of bed much easier.
Go and define yourself. I assure you we will respond in applause and rally behind your what and why.
So the question for today is, what does it mean to be you?

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Mar 15 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership, Marketing

Use Your Inside Voice

A big world requires a big voice to be heard.

Just a few short decades ago the world was huge, spread out, and humanity was not fully connected.

A spread out world needs televisions, newspapers, and radios to let the masses know what’s up, what’s down, and what bleach can make Dad’s undershirts the whitest.

In the flip of a switch the world shrank, all humans connected, and billions of neighborhoods (web sites) configured into one zip code – 9021WorldWideWeb.

Ever since that switch was flipped, billions have been migrating this zip code exchanging, questioning, searching, sharing, and learning.

A world that operates as a neighborhood dilutes the efficiency of the mass media mediums.

This is not an argument against marketing. This is plea to redefine marketing. The old definition has simply lost its mojo.

Welcome to the neighborhood. Please use your inside voice. Your whisper will be heard over the others screaming.

…..and a few other rules should you decide to pitch your tent in the hood: Be nice, build lasting relationships, and be yourself.

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Mar 14 2012
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Business, Creativity, Imagination, Leadership

Passion Exposure

We are not one-dimensional.

We are full of colors, sounds, passions, systems, processes, ideas, and dreams – all of which need their exposure.

You can be a venture capitalist and a lover of poetry. Connect the two and your deals may start to fuse poetically.

You can be a mom and an entrepreneur. In hopes that your passion, leads to purpose, which leads to profit. AKA – (The Gospel According to Tony Hsieh)

You can be a mathematician and a master gardener. And while you’re at it, write a book called Garden Math (just a thought..I’m sure there’s some connection between the two).

Careful. What you care about the most just may lead you down numerous career path opportunities.

If you’re brave enough to expose us to all of you, the world, as you see it, will turn into one big office you get to go to everyday.

Alas, a planet of passionate workers is where my hope is pointed and where my passion lies.

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Mar 08 2012
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Business, Creativity, Discipline, Focus, Imagination, Leadership

Music Math

You + Your Instruments = Your Music

Your Music X People Sharing Your Music  = A Movement

A Movement + Passion + Purpose = A Changed World

In all the math we’ve just witnessed, look who a changed world begins with.

Footnote: We don’t share noise, we share music. Which makes the first algorithm the most important of the three.

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