Career

I have finally finished Linchpin: Are You Indispensible?, Seth Godin’s most recent book, and I liked it a lot. How could I not? It got my brain working overtime thinking about this and that and everything in between. I recommend it to others for several reasons: 1) to see the work you do in a [...]

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Seth Godin on linchpins, focus, spreading stories

by Bill Wren on March 15, 2010

I asked Seth Godin a few questions and he was kind enough to answer them. The majority concern his latest book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? While for most people he requires no introduction, I should mention that Seth Godin is a well known author, speaker, and entrepreneur (Squidoo) and blogger (one of the most popular [...]

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What is the point of success?

by Bill Wren on March 13, 2010

Success is a moving target. It’s a cloud formation never the same one day to the next – even one minute to the next. What on earth is it? I sent off a question today that asked, “Have we misunderstood the purpose of business and career success? Have we made business/career success an end rather [...]

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Everyday people always entertaining

by Bill Wren on September 20, 2009

I’ve recently started a project that requires a certain amount of reclamation work. By that I mean my memory is pretty awful so I’m doing some work to reclaim my memory by going through my various blog archives. It’s been something of a revelation. I have three blogs: this one, another devoted to movies and [...]

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Why dogs are important to business

by Bill Wren on August 25, 2009

“… It’s nice to know that if I do post about my dogs or something, it’s not a total faux pas.” That is from a comment left yesterday by Tzaddi, from ThriveWire, to my post I wonder what she’ll say? And I thought, yes. Dogs are a great example of what I’m trying to get [...]

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