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inspiration of the week: the secret truth about executing ideas

i love this video. frans johansson discusses the secret truth about executing ideas.  so often we are paralyzed to take action (such as starting a new company, quitting a job, etc) because it seems like such a mammoth task.  i encourage you to watch this video because frans debunks that myth and gives you a way to think about how…

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the surprising truth about what motivates us?

i’ve written about daniel pink before, and when a friend of mine sent this animated version of his latest book, drive, i had to pass it on.  watching it may help you understand why your employees aren’t motivated to work for you or why you aren’t motivated at work.  check it out and think about what you can change…

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how to design a movement

derek shivers teaches us, in under 5 minutes, how to start a movement: “remember the importance of nurturing your first few followers as equals so it’s clearly about the movement, not you…the biggest lesson, if you noticed — did you catch it — is that leadership is over-glorified…it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a…

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the sound of someone who is designing their life

a good friend of mine shared this video with me the other day, and i believe it is a beautiful and excellent example of someone taking the initiative and determining within themselves that they would design their own life. i hope that, like me, you find this video encouraging, inspiring, and relevant to where you are right now in your…

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seth godin says “be remarkable”

a seth godin throwback as he encourages us to stand out, be remarkable, and to live on the fringes.  he warns us that building and doing things worth talking about are the only things worth building and doing.  in this 15 minute talk he declares that for marketers, being safe is risky and that building average products for average people…

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the google job experiment

the u.s. is being divided by those who are coming out of the recession versus those who are still stuck in it.  if you find yourself in the latter and are in the job hunt, perhaps you should take lessons from this guy who purchased google ad words of all of the names of the people he wanted to work…

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