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667. Join me in inspiring truly powerful people. Each day I will add a new thought, story or idea to support your quest and mine. SeaTac airport. 5:30 am. I’m sitting in the atrium holding coffee with...
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A painting from my archives. This one was 4′ x 4′ and sold in 2007. Jim asked a world-class question: When did customer service become a firewall against serving customers? If you’ve had to call about...
View ArticleSometimes It Takes More Than A Text
TODAY’S FEATURED IDEA FOR HUMANS In a recent post I wrote that we are often slaves to brevity. We want quick and easy answers to life’s big questions. Peter Block wrote that, in 30 years of consulting...
View ArticleThere Is Wisdom In Dancing
TODAY’S FEATURED THOUGHT FOR HUMANS To restate an old notion: knowledge is not wisdom. And, often times, our reliance on knowledge blinds us to wisdom (for instance, passing a test has little or...
View ArticlePivot [on Two Artists Tuesday]
I learned many things following Skip through the curious world of technology entrepreneurism. Peculiar terms like ‘incubator” and “accelerator,” once reserved for premature babies or the gas pedal in...
View ArticleName It Or Not [on DR Thursday]
I sold this painting a long time ago. It’s a big piece, four feet by four feet. George Broderick sold it through his gallery in Portland, Oregon. The day we hung it in his space, he asked me what it...
View ArticleMourn The Loss [on KS Friday]
28 years ago, on this day, Kerri’s older brother, Wayne, died of lung cancer. If you want to know how she feels about it, you need only listen to LAST I SAW YOU. Grief made utterly beautiful in its...
View ArticleEnter The Sanctuary [on Not So Flawed Wednesday]
This is an image of sanctuary. The back yard of dear friends, time spent together, taking precautions to be safe in a time of pandemic. There’s more than one compromised immune system represented in...
View ArticleDream [on Not So Flawed Wednesday]
When does a dream turn into a goal? Lately, I’m having conversations that confuse me. Business thinking, engineer minds, make models for creation. Creativity plans as action templates and guides....
View ArticleMake Sense [on Merely A Thought Monday]
I told Kerri she was going to be fired two years before the ax fell. I needed no crystal ball and was not reading tea leaves. In my consulting life I’d seen it happen a few dozen times. When a...
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