Monthly Archives: April 2008
If you achieve alone in a forest, have you really achieved?
I’ve been exploring ideas around self-promoting at work, being recognized, and motivation as it relates to recognition and achievement. What is the relationship for you between achievement and recognition? How do you know you’ve achieved something? What forms of recognition … Continue reading
Ten Cultural Career Lies v4 handout
Update the handout again to include a slightly reformatted Happy vs. Successful diagram and a list of my web resources: ten-cultural-career-lies-v4
How 23-year-old Ryan Allis created a $10 million business in three years
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Ryan Allis is the 23-year-old founder of iContact.com, the web’s second biggest marketing website. Ryan spoke in this podcast about how he ended up where he is and the role passion plays in business. This is a companion interview to the Get-it-Done Guy podcast, “Passion Play.” Continue reading
Can taxes buy happiness?
In yesterday’s post Can money buy happiness, people seemed to agree that money doesn’t buy happiness directly, but it can buy choices, security, freedom, etc., which can help happiness. This question isn’t for the book, but for my own curiosity. … Continue reading
Oh, crap. Maybe money CAN buy happiness.
Well, isn’t that just the cat’s pajamas. There’s a new study out that shows that happiness may be linked to absolute levels of income, after all. Of course, as the article states, it’s linked to other things as well, like … Continue reading
Is there any place for using data and observation in the book?
I’d value your thoughts. I just wrote a fairly rambling post about my frustration at how we ignore data in favor of superstition, and that could lead to stuff like, oh, the collapse of modern society.
Science has worked so well that superstition now reigns supreme
I grew up in the era of the Apollo moon launches. One of my earliest memories is traveling to Cape Canaveral and watching from the beach as one of the missions was launched towards the moon. It was pretty incredible. … Continue reading
Don't do too much at once!
One of my projects of the last year has been turning recordings of speeches and workshops I’ve given into products. I’ve got about 10 I want to produce. I made the huge mistake of trying to work on several at … Continue reading
The solution to CEO pay? Charge people to be CEO.
I just ran across an article by Mark Cuban about CEO pay and how stock and options have distorted it beyond all recognition. I go a step further and suggest … well, read for yourself.
What's best: objective decisions or relationship-driven decisions?
@stephenparker on Twitter asked an excellent question: Is it better to be objective in our decision making, or should our relationships play a role? Is it better to be right or loyal? What a great question. Here’s my answer: I … Continue reading
