May 18, 2012
The current boom in technology start ups has created a renewed condition of over-working throughout the early-stage tech community. One of my GenX colleagues pinged me last week, “We are working long hours like we did during the last boom — when we were...
Mar 9, 2012
Just this week I said to one of my best clients, “The point of our work together is not to build you your most successful business (although we are doing that too), it is to build you the best life you want, which includes a business that challenges and inspires...
Feb 3, 2012
I’ve been thinking of all those pithy sayings about living our lives, like the Chinese “May you live in interesting times” and “Be careful what you wish for…” And I have found my new message. So, I am only about 50 pages into the...
Oct 6, 2011
Steve Jobs died yesterday, shortly after stepping down from one of the most innovative technology companies in the world, Apple: a company he founded, and was fired from, and returned to, and then built into a new market standard. And he built a second company,...
Sep 23, 2011
My client told me an interesting story last week. He was boarding the plane in New York to come home to Los Angeles, iPad in hand. He had just spent 2 days in meetings with a new client, clarifying their initial transmedia strategy, so he could continue a long...
Aug 2, 2011
It is time to return to the ideas in this address by the brilliant Paul Hawken, from 2009’s University of Portland graduation. Some excerpts here~ The living world is not “out there” somewhere, but in your heart. What do we know about life? In the words of...
