Tag Archives: success

Facing the stairs

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Continue reading →

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Publish and flourish: cause and effect

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Bill Wren

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, … Continue reading →

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Publish and you may perish anyway

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Continue reading →

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Seth Godin’s clarion call: a review of Linchpin

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Continue reading →

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A world of absolutes

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Bill Wren

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 … Continue reading →

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