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Me, Myself, And I: Great Connections Start Within

Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversation on “Great Connections Lead to Great Ideas.” Yesterday, Mark Silver wrote about the power of surrendering to wherever the talking is coming from. In today’s post, Andrea Lee reminds us that great connections start within. *** In a discussion about connections, conversation and great ideas, [...]

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Great Connections Help You Bring Projects To Fruition

Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversation on “Great Connections Lead to Great Ideas.” Yesterday, Sarah Robinson encouraged us not to create in a vacuum. Today, Michael Bungay Stanier shows us how his network helps him bring projects to fruition. ***** Today I’m launching a book that saves lives. It’s got 62 [...]

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You Become The Network You Hang With

Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversation, “Great Connections Lead To Great Ideas.” In our last thread, Carol Roth showed how great minds often don’t think alike. Today, Chris Garrett – the founder of the ChrisG and co-author of the Problogger book, shows how it may not be the birds that make the [...]

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Great Minds Often Don’t Think Alike

Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversation, “Great Connections Lead To Great Ideas.”  Yesterday, Seth Godin showed how the magic is in the space between conversations. Today, Carol Roth shows how great minds often don’t think alike. ***** Watch the video below to learn: Why engaging with people who think differently will [...]

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A Different Past Would’ve Changed You – So What?

We’re just coming back from our fourth Lift Off Retreat – more on that later, as I’ll keep my tradition of doing the post-Lift Off wrap-up as a video post – and, for something special and different, we asked Tim Berry to join us and talk about the more personal side of business building. Tim [...]

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How Is Your Perfectionism Feeding You?

Are you grappling with perfectionism? Rather than addressing the symptoms of perfectionism, let’s talk about one of its roots. There are others, but I’ll focus on one today. Take a second to think about the story you tell yourself about being a perfectionist and pouring excess effort into completing something. Is it that if you [...]

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Eyes Forward

When you’re looking at a successful entrepreneur, remember that you’re looking at someone who has made a lot of mistakes in their time. They’ve bought the crap. They’ve bought into the crap. They’ve gambled. And lost. They’ve groped in the darkness and stubbed their toes a few times. They’ve reworked, reiterated, reframed, restarted, and revised. [...]

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Cultivate Your Truth, Cultivate Yourself

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One of the reasons it’s important to speak and share your own truth is that it allows you to really hear and feel it in your bones. By “your truth,” I just mean what is, for you, right now. You’ll see. The counterintuitive truth of speaking your truth is that it’s usually not the [...]

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When It’s Okay To Use People

Act that you use humanity, whether in your person or in another, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.- Immanuel Kant You’re using me right now. You’ve been using people all of your life. And, in most cases, that’s okay. The quote above is a translation of Immanuel Kant’s [...]

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