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Leadership & Work
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Curiosity Is the Only Superpower That Matters Today
You can learn anything, but you have to be curious first. Without curiosity, skills are just checklists on a resume. Update Nov 19: Here is the link to Mark’...
Your Marketing Isn’t Working Because Your Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open
You can’t juggle it all and expect to have space to think about anything. Maybe a fractional CMO is the answer? Your day starts with a crisis in sales. Then...
Reaching the end of the DMSC Chartered Marketers Course—Successfully
It wasn’t what I expected; it was better This essay was the last—non-graded—assignment to complete all my coursework to earn my Chartered Marketer designatio...
We need more than AI answers, we need AI guides
We aren't going to get better AI adoption by just winging it Navigating the AI Maze: Why Every Marketing Team Needs a Guide A couple of fantastic posts from...
Are you a carriage maker or a car dealer?
Henry Ford showed the world how to make things, now AI is unmaking them One of the themes I talked about in my post about the state of finding and hiring for...
Hiring today is like playing darts blindfolded
Do we even know what we’re aiming at? Right now I’m on the “looking for work” side of the job market table, but I’ve been on the other side too. I’ve hired p...
The Secret to Success is Reinvention
I gave a career day talk at Imagine High, the local arts and technology high school here in Chilliwack. This is the kind of school where the kids who don't f...
Here we are, all over again
You might say I’m a bad blogger. I talk about writing everyday. I talk about what it takes to keep improving your craft. And yet, my blog here has languished...
Life Gets in the Way
Life gets in the way. My goal, as I ramp up my content marketing and freelance writing business, was to post here everyday. Following the example of Mark Eva...
Closing One Chapter, Starting Another
Closing One Chapter, Starting Another 2004 - 2014 were great, but everything has to end It’s a sobering experience when you realize that over the past 16 yea...
How Gaming the System Worked Better For Everyone
What Weight Watchers teaches us about motivation Photo by Sean Thomas on Unsplash I've had to keep an eye on my weight since my first (medically supervised)...
Content! Content! Get Your Content Here! I’m Freelancing Again.
In which our hero, revamps his neglected website, imports content from Medium, and says: “F\ck it, I like being a writer”. I'm back in the freelance writing...
Five Tips For Giving A Great Presentation
Or talk or speech or keynote. “A close-up of a microphone with a group of people in the blurred background” by Kane Reinholdtsen on Unsplash Here’s my trial...
Is That A Trick Question?
Interview questions are trick question, the trick is giving the answer you want Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash I’ve been doing a lot of interviews in the...
What Did You Create When You Were A Kid?
I created worlds of adventures, my daughter creates entire houses “A Great figurine from Guardians of The Galaxy and cactus plants sitting on a desk at Four...
A Manager’s Job Is To Raise The Team Up
Their own career will be just fine for it “Several people fist bumping over a busy workspace” by rawpixel.com on Unsplash I caught a post today on LinkedIn t...
Sometimes you have to call bullsh*t
Photo by Tobias Cornille on Unsplash When the assumption so flawed you really don’t have any choice or How I discovered my superpower and will no longer apol...
Coming out of hiatus and other stuff too
Kinda hiatus, but more like life got in the way A beacon cutting through the crap I realized this morning while I was sending out my “portfolio” for a job ap...
Innovation Requires Knowing It Can Be Done
How do you build more when you don’t think there is a place for more? I was chatting with Marshall Kirkpatrick about apps and what we’re up to. I think Marsh...
The Customer Experience of Getting My Car Fixed
A few simple things would have made things much better. I needed to get the driver’s-side side mirror fixed on my wife’s car. It had been bashed and wouldn’t...
Technology isn’t going to fix work
It’s up to us to figure this stuff out first I read a lot of Signal v. Noise. Even if I don’t use Basecamp at work, I connect with what Jason Fried and DHH s...