Category Archives: Initiate

About you

Take a moment and google yourself.  C’mon, I know you’ve done it before, so go do it again, and then come back. Do you like what you discovered?  Do you like what people who don’t know you see when they … Continue reading

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The problem with being a naysayer

The problem is that even when you’re right, it’s coming from the person who always dissents, so people will listen to you less. It’s that you’re usually advocating holding off, holding back, or not starting. It’s that, in fact, things … Continue reading

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The power of combinatory skills

Last Monday night, if you happened to be one of the 2,000+ people at Carnegie Hall, you were lucky enough to hear a powerful, arresting performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony played, perhaps for the first and last time in history, … Continue reading

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Initiate

My first real job was as a management consultant, and after that I worked at a number of big companies, and from both I inherited a clear, incorrect sense of how my professional life should evolve.  It looked something like … Continue reading

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