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In praise of the follower

by Bill Wren on September 11, 2011

For what seems years now, I’m been hearing about leadership. I’ve been in conferences, read books and seen countless posts online about how you have to be a leader. Everyone on a team has to lead. It’s in leadership that success lies.

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If the door is locked, use a window

by Bill Wren on March 9, 2011

When you find a door locked it’s not unusual to waste a lot of time trying to open it. But it’s locked and no matter what you do it won’t open. That is when you pause, take a look around and notice the window – and it’s open. That’s your way in. It can take [...]

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Intersection: I reveal what it is I do

by Bill Wren on October 1, 2010

холови гарнитуриYou never know where ideas and help are going to come from or when. Yesterday I paused from working and found two posts that helped me discover something I’d been looking for a long time. What was I looking for? What it is I do. For me the most painful, almost unbearable kind of [...]

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Publish and you may perish anyway

by Bill Wren on May 10, 2010

I heard a loud voice, it said a few words. It said, “You gotta take a chance and you gotta pay, boy. You cannot win if you do not play.” – Steve Forbert – Just because you get something out there into the world, it doesn’t follow that anyone will want it. That’s the discouraging [...]

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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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