Tag: Personal Aspirations
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Climbing the Bumps
What are you proud of? All things being equal it’s been a year of challenges and triumphs. I’ve watched many of you grow over the last year, myself included. I read a book when I was a kid named “The bumps are what you climb on”. The premise being that challenging yourself and enduring challenging…
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Are you all in?
Sometimes I write this letter wondering if I am shouting into the ether … I just pray that someone is reading, I know you do because the open rate is well above 90%. I love it when I hear from you. If you have to do something each week come hell or high water, vacation,…
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What is the big experience that has driven your life?
Hi Everyone, Normally, on a day like today I’d write about football and share some quotes from Vince Lombardi in advance of the super bowl, however; today I want to talk about something different. What is the big experience that has driven your life? Each of us has a series of experiences, things that have happened…
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Maybe So
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein Maybe So My mentor at Microsoft used to share this Chinese proverb occasionally as a reminder that things are not always as they appear to be… more to follow after you read the proverb. One day in late summer, an old farmer was working in…
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Maybe So
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein My mentor at Microsoft used to share this Chinese proverb occasionally as a reminder that things are not always as they appear to be… more to follow after you read the proverb. One day in late summer, an old farmer was working in his field…
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Fearless
Hi Everyone, I hope you had a great week, I certainly had an exhilarating one. There were some big highs this week and some real lows, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I was chatting with someone about Tahzoo and they asked me, “How do you keep going and how do you have the…
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Fearless
“Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.” – Orison Swett Marden Fearless Hi Everyone, I hope you…
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Tahzoo 2017 Strategic Direction
“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary a qualification for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.” – H.G. Wells A few weeks ago, I wrote out our mission for 2017 in the Desk of Brad. I thought I’d send it out as a reminder and a pretext for our focus going…
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Digital Innovation
I spoke this week at the Digital Innovation Summit in Utrecht. It was a wonderful event with over 100 attendees, including customers, prospects, and partners. My speech focused on the experience economy and how the quality and shareability of experience is a hallmark of good marketing. In the experience economy, it’s not about how much…
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Optimism…Nature v. Nurture
Some people say I am optimistic, others say I’m too optimistic. I am certain the second group says this only because they don’t want me to get my hopes up and then be disappointed. Either way, I am optimistic by nature, but what does that really mean? I am currently reading The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker.…