Information grows differently than industry or agriculture. Thus hundreds of years of understanding about how to grow Industrial-Age businesses doesn’t really apply to many Information Age endeavors. Indeed, some of the lessons of how to grow a farm in the Agricultural Age didn’t necessarily translate to Industrial Age corporate growth, although some did. The key [...]
In today’s highly competitive market there are fewer and fewer ways to separate your company and your products from the competition. All products offer the latest features and all companies offer guarantees. What makes some companies and some individuals always near the top of the pack? The biggest differentiator in the new economy is a constant [...]
I recently spent a week camping with a group of Boy Scouts at Flaming Gorge reservoir in Utah. Over the course of the week we enjoyed tons of outdoor activities, including canoeing, kayaking, river rafting, fishing, cliff diving, motor boating, and more. One of the favorite activities was being pulled behind the motor boat on [...]
It at first seems odd that Leonardo da Vinci is so revered today. None of his sculptured works have survived, and only around a grand total of fifteen of his paintings are known. Although he wrote a lot about architecture, no buildings anywhere are credited to his name. Dispassionate scientists have long debated the originality [...]
The Politically-Induced “Split-Personality” of the Human Soul I recently experienced an epiphany that generated hope out of a lot of frustration regarding the contending factions in American and world politics, and within my own heart. I was discussing Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments with a colleague, in which Smith (according to my discussant) [...]
As the old saying goes, “Leaders are Readers.” This has proven true generation after generation, and is still the reality today. But there is a significant difference in the leadership value in different types of reading. For example, few would doubt that there is a difference in benefits between reading the following items: a technical [...]
Note from CSL: In The Coming Aristocracy, Oliver DeMille lists networking marketing as one manifestation of “mini-factories.” In this article, network marketer Orrin Woodward describes how to be successful at network marketing specifically, though the principles apply to any entrepreneur, mini-factory builder, and aspiring social leader. Links throughout are for informational purposes and do not [...]
Blame is easier than leadership. It’s been long enough since the announcement of the “Great Recession” that a shelf of books are now out—each outlining the “real” causes of the recession and its unsettling impact on the American psyche and economy. Unfortunately, most of these books are essays on blame. The two major political parties [...]
Contribute your thoughts on the poem to the community by commenting below. Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. Totally like whatever, you know? Taylor Mali In case you hadn’t noticed, it has somehow become uncool to sound like you know what you’re talking about? Or believe strongly in what you’re saying? Invisible question marks and [...]
Please contribute your thoughts on the poem to the community by commenting below. Explore the Sunday Poem archives here. Opportunity Edward Rowland Sill THIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:– There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, [...]
