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Leadership & Headspace
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Leadership & Headspace
What’s keeping you up at night?
I'm gonna share some stats with you and I wanna know if it sounds like you. And if it does,…
April 14, 2026
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Leadership & Headspace
How to Survive Working at Home
Howdy! It took a global pandemic for me to start blogging again, so there's that. Over the last two years…
March 19, 2020
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Don’t Be Afraid To Call Out The Bullshit
"That's bullshit," I looked up and everybody was staring. I'd said it out loud. "Oh, looks like I'm about to…
May 19, 2016
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Fuck “Fake It Till You Make It”
Hello, there. Been a while, huh? I screwed the pooch by leaving you hanging after I dropped the bomb that…
January 29, 2016
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Learning from @Nenshi – If I was going to run for office…
Three separate local politicians asked me this month what I'd do to market a political campaign. Aside from the obvious:…
May 22, 2014
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Depression and anxiety are thieves
Somewhat selfishly, I co-opted this month's Word Carnival topic to talk about mental health. It's not something we tend to…
March 25, 2014
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Think you’re a total failure? You are probably right.
This month's Word Carnival topic discusses the feeling that you are a total fraud. It's called Impostor Syndrome. And almost…
July 29, 2013
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Mulligan: What I’d Tell Myself If I Could Go Back to Day One
Last week I answered this question by saying, because of Star Trek's temporal prime directive, I'd tell myself nothing if…
June 7, 2013
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Leave the Past in the Past: A Lesson from Star Trek
A question small business owners get asked a lot: "If you could go back in time to your first day…
May 28, 2013
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A Note on Personal Accountability
It's 9:21 AM on Tuesday April 23rd and I'm working on my slides for a three-day training I'm going to…
April 30, 2013
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What Your Small Business Can Learn About How EA Games Tanked The Multi-Million Dollar SimCity Brand
I've long been a power-crazed dictator. It's why I run my own business - and why I enjoyed spending my…
March 9, 2013
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How’d Those New Years Resolutions Go For You?
I didn’t make any New Years Resolutions for 2013. In my mind, that is a kind of resolution: don’t make…
January 27, 2013
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