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What’s the Worst That Can Happen?

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Fourth in a series of posts inspired by Seth Godin’s Linchpin
The odds of a plane crashing from turbulence are essentially zero, so I sit and enjoy it. It’s like a ride at an amusement park.  -Seth’s friend John
What are the odds that you never work again, your spouse leaves you, your kids disown you, and [...]

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The Resistance

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Third in a series of posts inspired by Seth Godin’s Linchpin.
A woman I know was laid off in 2008 after a 14-year career in broadcast journalism. Now at the end of her financial rope, she had just a couple months of living expenses left and no real prospects of another job. She was understandably scared.
“What [...]

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Thrash Early and Often

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Second in a series of posts inspired by Seth Godin’s Linchpin.
I quoted Seth Godin’s Linchpin in my last post. But I didn’t give him enough credit. “Lean forward” was directly inspired from his chapter about “Becoming The Linchpin” and the steps people and businesses need to take to be indispensable.
Books like Seth’s always trigger ideas. [...]

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Lean Forward

Sunday, February 21, 2010

First in a series of posts inspired by Seth Godin’s Linchpin.
A few years back a bunch of advertising-displaced friends reunited for a whitewater rafting trip.  I came from New York. Three others came from Boston. One lived in Vegas. And we all descended on my former partner in Chattanooga, who was to be our river [...]

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