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Pursue Happiness

July 4, 2011July 4, 2011

Today we celebrate the right to chase the dream. Or in the language of our forefathers, we celebrate the right to pursue of happiness. We hold these truths to be …

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Picking the Big Idea

July 2, 2011July 15, 2011

Most of us make things happen, get results, and deliver. But ask us if we’re focused on building our vision, on our big goals or if we even know what …

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The Biggest Impact

June 27, 2011June 28, 2011

It is tempting to load up our lives with commitments and projects. This allows us to express our many ambitious aims. It feels like we are being creative, and prolific, …

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When Envy is Good

June 26, 2011June 27, 2011

A friend asked me if I was mad at Seth Godin. And I was surprised. And then he reminded me that I had said something like “God damn that Seth …

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Cells Regenerate. Machines Compute. Humans Create.

May 15, 2011July 6, 2011

Probably the only concept I still remember from when I programmed in Basic was this: Everything is a series of inputs, or outputs. Inputs are the signals or data received …

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Stopping Theft at Work

May 11, 2011December 1, 2019

She had dark circles under her eyes as she walked into the conference room. Not just Friday-morning dark circles, but major-product-launch dark circles. I asked her how she was doing. …

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Want It? Do Your Homework.

April 27, 2011August 24, 2011

A CEO of a software company reaches out to me recently, and asks me to take a 20-minute meeting to review his strategy/execution software because it was a match to …

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Defying Categorization

April 21, 2011July 15, 2011

People often ask me the question, should I do have two twitter addresses — one for business, one for personal? And authors I know that are experts on innovation then …

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Being Imperfectly Ourselves

April 20, 2011July 17, 2011

I sometimes wish I was a Harvard graduate, that I was a 4.0 type student, that I could still do a mean regression analysis, that I had been a CEO …

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