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What deserves their attention?
Stop asking how to get their attention.Start asking if you deserve it. For decades, businesses thought they had a simple answer:Pay a salary, and you’ve
A mess of a message
Did you ever notice that message starts with “mess”? I think that’s no accident.Most messages do start as a mess. As scattered thoughts.With too many
A special kind of smart
There’s a special kind of smart that leaves everyone confused.That’s the Obfuscator at work. They use big words to say small things.They wrap simple ideas
Two different kinds of clarity
This is one of the big misconceptions about clarity:You think the problem is they don’t get it. But sometimes they do.And just don’t care. We
Conversations that matter
“We want outcomes without the conversations that make them possible.” But that’s exactly what’s apparently happening … Last week, I gave the opening keynote at
Simply you
Sometimes we’re so busy becoming someone that we forget to just be someone. After all the growth, the learning, the striving … what if today you