How you frame your idea is key. By selecting the right words to use, you can either enroll your audience in what you’re saying, or leave them disengaged and unmotivated to take action. In Shelle Rose Charvet’s book “Words That Change Minds: Mastering the language of influence,” she suggests each other of us has motivation [...]
In the Chinese military treatise, The Art of War, Sun Tzu writes about military strategy and tactics. Since much of the text is about how to fight wars without having to do battle, it provides a great perspective on leadership and strategy. One of his lesson really hit home this week: [The leader of an [...]
Yesterday was Worldwide-Meet-The-Tribe-Of-Linchpins Day according to Seth Godin. Seth fans gathered together at over 790 meetups around the world and talked about his books/blog, shipping ideas, and many other topics of interest. Chris Coldeway, another UBC Sauder alum and creator of redrovr, organized the Vancouver Meetup. My sis got up there and shared a bit [...]
Earlier this week, I was in a colleague’s office and saw her whiteboard with an interesting diagram on it. The longer I looked at the image, the more I realized I had no idea what it was trying to communicate. It was a combination of lines and boxes mixed in with dates and activity titles. [...]
For Christmas in 2006, my sister gave me a great travel journal that I wrote in (almost) every time I left British Columbia. In the past 3 years, it has hit the streets of New York (twice), hiked mountains around South America, gallivanted through Europe, road-tripped to Colorado, biked around Hawaii, survived in Hong Kong, [...]
“I’ve worked on my weaknesses for 40 years to little avail. Still “needs improvement” as they say. Why? Easy. We hate doing things we’re not good at, so we avoid them. … But my strengths – ah, I love my strengths. I’ll work on them til the purple cows come home. When we love what [...]
As Seth Godin writes: “Now, more than ever, we need to shake things up.” In preparation for the new year(s), and his new book launch no doubt, Seth brought together more than seventy great thinkers to create an e-book called “What Matters Now.” In classic Godin fashion, he uses short ‘chapters’ to jam-pack quality into [...]
As I looked for my next read, I decided to skip the classic business books I’m usually found enjoying and go for a little fiction. My mom gave me a book last year for my birthday titled “The Shack” by William P Young and I haven’t been able to put it down. The story wrestles [...]
My previous boss, rockstar colleague, and many others have given me lists upon lists of books that I “need to read.” While their lists are unique, there seems to be some common books that keep appearing. Here is my list of those books that are making their way to the top: Disclaimer: This is my [...]
Ed Blunderfield made my day. We had just set out on our ride over to West Vancouver when he informed me that we had to stop by his pad on the way back to pick up something he got for me. Birthday present? Too early. Milestone I forgot? Nope. Ed just being awesome? Check. Ed [...]
