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Respect customers and yourself

by Bill on July 24, 2010

(This was first posted Sept. 18, 2004.) In the various blogs I visit, and in other sources, I continually come across discussions about customers and their experience of businesses, large and small. One of the themes that pops up frequently is respect, as in Seth Godin’s recent posting, Trust and Respect, Courage and Leadership. You [...]

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Facing the stairs

by Bill on July 3, 2010

This post doesn’t have any tips or suggestions that will help you to solve problems or engage your creative side. It’s really just an observation. It’s about something everyone will inevitably encounter in their life: the daunting stairs you’ll have to climb to get to where you want to go – and what happens once [...]

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Publish and flourish: cause and effect

by Bill on May 25, 2010

The final lesson I take from the story of Scheherazade’s telling of The One Thousand and One Nights is that you can change the dictum “publish or perish” to “publish and flourish.” As John Barth points out in Getting Oriented, the relationship that develops between Scheherazade and the king Shahryar is productive in more ways [...]

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Publish and you may perish anyway

by Bill 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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A world of absolutes

by Bill on March 19, 2010

I’ve noticed, as you may have too, that we love absolutes, especially online. On Wednesday there was an opinion piece on the Globe and Mail site that said bloggers are male. Women who blog must have struggled with their sexual identity upon learning this. With trackable regularity, claims are made about this or that being [...]

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What is the point of success?

by Bill 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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