It was early in my business career. Our start up venture was a little over two years old. We had opened our first expansion city office, and it was awful. Wrong market, wrong people, wrong location, wrong tactics, wrong everything! On a flight with our chairman and our attorney, it became immanently clear that we [...]
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Better to receive? Dec26
(This post is from Jesse Lyn Stoner, a speaker, business consultant and co-author of Full Steam Ahead: Unleash the Power of Vision (Berrett-Koehler, 2011). She can be found on Twitter at @jesselynstoner and she blogs at www.jessestoner.com.) How many times have you heard, “It’s better to give than receive?” It’s so ingrained in our [...]
My Least Favorite Word… “deserve” Oct13
There are few words in the English language that stop me cold. Hearing the Lord’s name used in vain still does it. But about the only other word that has same effect is the word “deserve.” Every time I hear it, whether on t.v. or from a close personal friend, it makes me want to [...]
