I love this chain of anecdotes. They make my brain tingle. This is the story I didn’t…
It was a Friday in August, and I was in the hospital. In the same year, I had been in and out of the…
Dear Younger Self,
My baby is twelve weeks old. Barely a semester, a season, and yet a lifetime. All my experience as a mom. His entire life and counting. In this time, how our worlds have changed.
In his earliest days, time was measured in 3 hour chunks. To feed a baby 8 times a day, we had to…
The greatest manager I know got a promotion. And it’s a huge one. He will be entering the ranks of global management at one of the largest companies in the world. I know it’s huge not because of his reporting lines. I know it’s huge because for all his confidence and for all his…
Before he was Seth Godin, marketer extraordinaire, spreader of ideas, blogger who posts awesome content every single day to a gigantic readership, before all that he was Seth Godin of 2002, beginner blogger.
When we were trekking around Antarctica, I remember one of our expedition leaders defining leadership this way:
“Leadership is making small decisions so you never have to make a big decision.”
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