Archive for the ‘Motivation’ Category

Leaning into Change

In Seth Godin’s latest book, Linchpin, he talks about the concept of leaning into your work in order to be successful. He argues that a change in posture, leaning in vs. standing by, is one way to tell the linchpins (irreplaceable people in an organization) from the employees. I love this concept because it [...]

Responsibility

If you’re reading this it’s a good bet that you are probably responsible for marketing your company in one form or another.  And if so, instead of another list of things to do in 2010, or another pile of resolutions to stick to for the first 6 weeks, I simply ask that you take responsibility [...]

Ninety percent of life is just showing up

Ninety percent of life is just showing up.
- Woody Allen
This struck me the other day when a coworker called me a “machine” because I got a piece of work done that I said I was going to get done.  Radical concept, right? Now, the piece of work was a daunting task that wasn’t easily completed, [...]

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