Original ideas born of Onlyness often get squashed and squished by the status quo. And haven’t we all seen leaders …
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The Onlyness Canvas
Regular readers of this newsletter will remember that I recently started offering Consultations. One of the options was a structured …
What To Do When Your Boss Undermines You
In that meeting, someone asked a question about the business opportunity for the topic you were all discussing. You gave the …
Onlyness Made It to TED.com (And, No, It Wasn’t My Talk)
The Silent Generation, baby boomers, Generation X, millennials, Gen Z – we’re all in the workforce together. It’s the first …
In Barron’s: Is the Marketplace for Ideas Gutted?
Barron’s published a piece for me this week: “How TED (And Its Copycats) Gutted the Market for Ideas.” I’ve been …
Stop Generalizing Women as You Try to Advance Women
A headline of a recent NYT piece was so appealing, “What Happens When Women Stop Leading Like Men” that I …
In Harvard Business Review: Stop Eliminating Perfectly Good Candidates
75% of perfectly qualified candidates don’t make it through the main screening tool used by corporations. This post originally appeared …
How Power Powers Ideas
A few months back, the Economist ran an article with the headline “We’ve Run Out of Ideas”. And they were 100% serious. …
What I Got Wrong About Onlyness At The Beginning
I saw this tweet today where Marie Forleo was saying “There’s only ONE of you in the whole damn …
