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Leap: A Big Thank You to the Gutsy Female Entrepreneurs of Rent the Runway, Corporate Idiocy, and a Mitt Romney Joke Told in Poor Taste

Posted in business, corporation, creativity, dreams, economy, grateful, gratitude, thankful on May 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Corporate executive who say stupid things are making it easy for us to set sail on our own venture adventures. While I am angered by their behavior, I’m thankful for our ability to turn the situation around and invest in our own business ideas. When things are falling apart (corporate culture), pieces are often falling [...]

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Leap: Corporate Recruiting, We Have a Problem

Posted in business, career, corporation, job, time on April 22, 2012 | 5 Comments »

There’s an executive recruiter who’s been calling me for a few months. Every time we talk and we like each other less and less. She asks a lot of questions, never listens to my very honest answers, and then is annoyed that I’m not interested in the jobs she’s trying to staff (which are in [...]

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Leap: Pull an Amazon and Get Your Work Out Into the World

Posted in business, product, product development on March 15, 2012 | 4 Comments »

I attended a presentation at SXSW that showcased one of Amazon.com’s first homepages. Look how far they’ve come! I admire Amazon.com for so many reasons, one of which is that they will try to delight customers at every turn. And if they don’t get it quite right, they’ll just try again. The point is they [...]

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Leap: What Corporate America Could Learn from Moneyball

Posted in business, movie, sports on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

In business schools, Moneyball is revered as a classic case in making use of old data in new ways that drive innovative management techniques. I finally saw the movie last week and was blown away by the performances as well as the underlying message: marginalize people, relegate them to being followers rather than leaders in [...]

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Leap: How to Love Your Business Well

Posted in business, dreams, love on February 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven It’s true for affairs of the heart and it’s true for how you build a business, which is just another form of an affair of [...]

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Leap: Stop Digging Trenches

Posted in business, career, creativity, job, journey, work on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »

“The only explicit lesson I got from my father was when I was not doing very well in school, and he had a little chat with me and said, “You know, there are people who work for me who dig trenches, and there are people who are professionals, and if you keep going the way [...]

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Leap: We Could Learn a Lot About Business by Studying Coffee

Posted in business, cooking, creativity, food on January 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Last Sunday morning I went to Sur la Table with my friend, Allan, to take a coffee class. One of Allan’s new year’s resolutions is to learn more about food and its preparation so he asked me where he might take some classes. I had read about Sur la Table’s new course schedule in the [...]

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Leap: Make Sure Time Is On Your Side

Posted in business, entrepreneurship, time on January 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »

“Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson via ZenMoments “Be ruthless with your time.” ~ Pam Slim New projects take a tremendous amount of time to incubate, plan, and implement. To make the most of the opportunity, time alone creating and time collaborating with kindred spirits is critical. [...]

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Leap: What All Business Owners Can Learn from Retailer Athleta

Posted in business, yoga on January 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »

My friend, Sara, recommended I stop into Athleta to check out their newest location in my neighborhood. I’m not one for fancy yoga retailers, mostly because I’ve found that few of them have products that live up to their hype and because the commercialism around yoga makes me ill. However, Sara knows me well and [...]

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Leap: Outrunning Fear

Posted in business, career, dreams, fear, feelings, wishes on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry via Daily Good Beginning is the hard part, and every project, idea, wish, relationship begins the same way: setting an intention. That is the hard part. Loudly and [...]

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