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No Strings Attached

June 29, 2016

Like grace, the best businesses ideas have no strings attached. When you pay X, you get Y. Z = the money left over after expenses. It’s that simple. I read yesterday that most S&P 500 companies are no longer exclusively reporting results using GAAP.* Apparently, their businesses are too complex, or special, to follow Generally […]

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Only Humble, Thoughtful Leaders of People Need Apply

June 24, 2016

What makes a company great? Innovation, patents, defensible IP. High barriers to entry. Strategic brilliance married with decisive action. Being a first-mover. Delighted customers. Brand equity. Sales + marketing prowess. This list could go on and on. This week I read a 1474-word job description. Daunting was the list of responsibilities and required qualifications. Then […]

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What’s Next in Your Career? Go Crazy, Rush the Net. Accelerate Into the Curve.

August 25, 2015

I’ve been thinking about this: What’s next? I do not know, but I am optimistic. I expect it’s going to take some risk to win again. Heck, it’s gonna take some risk to lose again. Taking risk takes two things: fearlessness and focus. Fearlessness. What is it? I’ll tell you what it’s not. It’s not […]

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Excellence Demands Humility

June 23, 2015

The greatest temptation of all is arrogance – arrogance of knowledge, arrogance of expertise, arrogance of perceived superiority. Arrogance is embedded in the desire to control. I am discovering that the greatest freedom of all is found in humility — humility to learn, humility to grow, humility to stand aside and watch others flourish in […]

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lovelovethanksthanks

November 20, 2014
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My mom signed all of her emails to me with lovelovethanksthanks, m. That’s life in a nutshell. Come to know and love God first, love others based on His and your own integrity and always, always be grateful – in prosperity and adversity. It’s easy to forget these simple imperatives, since they can be quite […]

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