May 3, 2012 | Crafting Your Career, Professional Development
How can I be better? Nearly every day, this is a question I struggle with. Today is impermanent, imperfect, temporary. We can always be better. What will you focus on? How can you get better? I write every week, almost every day, in an effort to become a better and...
Apr 26, 2012 | Communication, Stories
There are thousands of bad presentations. What makes a good presentation? Nancy Duarte looks at the importance of stories and narratives in our collective history, and how the use of storytelling can captivate audiences. In it’s most simple structure, a story...
Apr 23, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship
What you see is not all there is It’s late on a Saturday night, and I feel a slight pull to go out, to put down my notebooks, to wander outside and do the “going out” thing I sometimes like to do. I feel the tug, the urge to walk down to the local...
Apr 16, 2012 | Health and Wellness, Life, Organization+Strategy
I’m staring at the giant salad box in front of me on the airplane, munching down on another pile of cheese and ham, trying to figure out if I’m even hungry. There’s still piles of salad left, and I’m cramped in between the person next to me and...
Apr 9, 2012 | Writing Practice
You. On the cover of a magazine. Big, bold, splashy words. You’re wearing something sharp. Five years down the road from now, you’re doing an exclusive interview, and someone is telling your story to a captive audience. Just a few questions for you, in...
Apr 5, 2012 | Crafting Your Career, Professional Development, Travel
Updates: I’m bursting at the seems with about a hundred posts I want to write, and they are all currently buried in my notebooks, brain, and on half-finished word documents on my laptop. I just took a peek at the unpublished drafts in my queue (110) and the...
Apr 2, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship
But with all this speed, we start wobbling. Making mistakes. Not seeing where we’re actually going. And too often, I see entrepreneurs and business owners prioritize speed over depth. Is it better to go fast, or to go far? Speed and consistency are two separate...
Mar 26, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career
What is the future of work? How about the future of education? Across the news, education reform and the way we learn seem to be undergoing a slow overhaul–or it still desperately needs one. The future of work is constantly shifting as we untangle ourselves...
