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What Are You Choosing Today?

On May 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Life is a sum of all your choices.

- Albert Camus

I haven’t written a blog post in almost three weeks.

Why? Is it because I’ve run out ideas? Nope—In fact, I’m discovering new insights I’m eager to share. Have I been so busy I forgot about my blog and my readers? No, Not a [...]

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Leap Challenge Day 6: Define Your Principles

On February 6, 2012 · 8 Comments

Saturday’s task was to write out your purpose for pursuing your big dream. A clear purpose statement is the fundamental link between the big picture and the daily grind. It’s why you’re going after your goal.

The other thing that affects and forms both your [...]

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How to Unleash your Organization

On September 21, 2011 · 5 Comments

As companies grow, complexity and bureaucracy grow as well. As bureaucracy grows, agility, responsiveness and vitality decrease.

It’s an old story we’ve seen repeated many times—but the companies that are booming in this new economy have found a way off this ride.

They’ve uncovered—and exploited—a flaw in the premise that the only way [...]

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4 Ways to Set Your People Free

On September 19, 2011 · 7 Comments

I was 21 years old the first time I handed my passport to an armed guard at a checkpoint and entered what the UN calls an Occupied Territory. It was the summer of ’95 and I was driving into the

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Letting Good Things Run Wild

On September 30, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’m always amazed when people approach discipline and freedom as opposite ends of a spectrum. As if discipline restricted freedom and freedom was by definition void of discipline. If they must be opposites, they’re opposite sides of the same coin. I believe any other view dilutes – if not destroys – them both.

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