I accepted an invite to a new social networking site because it came from Hugh MacLeod — turns out it was all a scam (to which he fell victim himself) and now I’ve helped perpetrate the problem.
If you just received an invite from me to join Quechup — delete it. It wasn’t from me. [...]
John Jantsch (of Duct Tape Marketing fame) recently posted a blog entry about how it’s sometimes necessary to “burn your boats” in order to force yourself into forward motion.
The concept is borrowed from a legend about a great military leader who landed his ships on an enemy shore and demonstrated to his troops that retreat [...]
The most recent Guerrilla Marketing email bulletin has Jay and Amy Levinson sharing the most important words in Human Relations:
The six most important words in business: “I admit that I was wrong.”
The five most important words in business: “You did a great job.”
The four most important words in business: “What do you think?”
The three most [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “Curiosity killed the cat” it’s probably one of the more morbid cliches out there. Imagine, curiosity actually proving fatal to felines.
Meee-OW!
The phrase doesn’t actually spell out the fact that it was the cat’s own curiosity that did him in. Perhaps it is a human’s curiosity that puts the furball [...]
Ben Yoskovitz has created a worthwhile group writing meme to inspire the collection of personal productivity secrets. Since I was ‘tagged’ by my friend Jason Kotecki (he’s the guy with the cure for Adultitis), here are three of my personal productivity secrets…
#1.) The Most Productive Thing PossibleThis is one of my oldest techniques, adopted from [...]
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