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The power of realization or Superheros are where you find them
When I saw human resources’ number come up on my phone display, I knew I’d gotten it, too. After the brief and awkward meeting and requisite paper signing, I headed back to my office, packed up my stuff and took one last look out the 38th floor window at a deserted Burnham Harbor. It was…
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Awaken YOUR Superhero Powers : Power 10 of 10 – Realization
Awaken YOUR Superhero Powers : Power 10 of 10 – Realization Chi Jnana Paramita Realization As part of my every thought, word, and action, I am inspired by the heroic ideal of spiritual intelligence. I pursue highest knowledge! The last aspect of the superhero is perhaps the most important, because it makes all the other…
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Mind Readings: Streaming, SaaS, Ownership, and Backups
In today’s episode, we explore the surprising reality of digital ownership in a subscription-based economy. You’ll learn about the ephemeral nature of digital content on platforms like Netflix and the App Store, and how it affects our perception of ownership. I’ll share personal experiences and insights into why having a backup plan for essential services…
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The Strategic Absence of Why
I had a chat recently with a conference organizer about an upcoming talk I’ll be doing on the basics of measurement, and in this conversation, I came to the realization about what many of us – myself included – have been doing wrong when it comes to measurement. Measurement, in this context, is how we…
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How to Calculate Diminishing Returns
I had a fun debate with my kids recently about the Mega Millions lottery and at what point you hit diminishing returns on purchasing lottery tickets. Lottery tickets are inherently a bad mathematical bet; the ROI of many games is somewhere around -90%. For every 1 you spend on the lottery, you lose0.90 of it.…
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Do Something With Your Marketing: Special Interview with Ian Altman
In this special edition of Do Something With Your Marketing, I interview sales expert Ian Altman about the second edition of his book, Same Side Selling. Same Side Selling teaches a different mindset for selling complex transactions: instead of thinking of the buyer as someone you have to win over, or someone you have to…
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Oppression begins with inequality
“You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work… when you go to church… when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth, that you…
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Believe none of what you see
Much has been made of various attempts at illustrating how distorted our sense of self-image is (especially for women’s self-image) by the trade media using programs like Photoshop. However, if you truly want to blow up someone’s preconceptions about how manipulated everything is, there’s no better way to do it than to do it yourself.…