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Insight > Information

When availability of data explodes and information overload becomes the norm, it is insight that we need and long for.

That time has come.

Don’t tell us what you’ve read…tell us what you’re seeing between the lines.

Don’t tell us what you’ve heard…share with us the beat, the tempo, and the rhymes of the song that is ringing in your ears.

Don’t tell us what the guy in the cubicle next to you found…share with us the feeling you’ve found in your gut.

Leadership in the days ahead will belong to the onion peelers, the sheet puller backers, and the insight pirates of the information ocean(s).

Ahoy.

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Tough Choices

Acknowledging fear.

Respecting freedom.

Learning from failure.

Or maybe the truly tough choice is in choosing the light in which you see these realities that are part of all that we experience.

We’re typically in the dark when we consider the fear, freedom, and failure we experience in our days.

Strike a match and burn three candles: acknowledgement, respect, and education.

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The Stories You Don’t See

Who doesn’t love a great story?

In 2010, I read Donald Miller’s A Million Miles in a Thousand Years and was forever changed.

Finding the concept of story and living a life with meaning and purpose (like a story) was enough to take my life, relationships, and businesses to a whole new level. My wife and I even named our first child Story.

Moving on…

Grand stories are made up of small, easily over-looked stories. The call, the note, the joke, the stranger, the friend, the enemy, the meal, the travel, the action, the reaction, the response, and repetition of it all can be forgettable. The beat of life, relationships, and businesses goes and then and then and then and then…

And then there was today and then there will be tomorrow.

To create a life and a career that are out of the ordinary, we must continually create unforgettable moments and stories that normally would be missed or overlooked.

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