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.”
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On a recent birthday I was looking back at the strategies that my friends from high school and college and I employed to get where we are today. We assumed that success would bring happiness, and as far I can tell, we were wrong. It turns out that the two...
Chris Matthews was just commenting that Benazir Bhutto's assassination was "a reminder of the dangerous world we all live in." In that moment, it struck me: we all live in a world of our own making. Oh, I don't mean literally, though fans of The Secret may disagree....
The love of money isn’t the root of all evil; arithmetic is the root of all evil. More specifically, counting. Learn how the Oft Acclaimed management tool of counting stuff just might be destroying your life.
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A friend asked: What is personal integrity? Does a person have personal integrity when their personality is integrated, or what? Interesting question. One meaning is that you act congruently with our values, tell the truth as you see it, etc. This is "integrity" n...
I’d like to share with you a LinkedIn exchange I had on the topic of whether Being Nice is a good business strategy.
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I just had this exchange of answer/email/response on LinkedIn on the topic of: should you be nice? The original question: Is there power in being nice, with people in general or as a management tool?I'm reading the new book "The Power of Nice" because it was sent to...
Just returned to the so-called "real world" after a week camping at a festival. Well, car camping. We had running water, a little shack happily selling us gyros, port-a-potties, and garbage collection. So we weren't really roughing it. But happily, the campground had...
I've totally internalized the media images of the Ideal Male Body. Abercrombie & Fitch, galore. So, in a very 21st-century way, I often feel inadequate with my body. Like every time I walk past a mirror. Especially in summer. The amazing thing is that we've...
I'm going to be working with an experienced PBS Producer on how to break into the media. Before we meet, she's asked me to poll some colleagues as to what qualities make me stand out, and what they find special about me. Being typical, non-emotional, task-oriented...