Judgment is separation
Passing comment or opinion on the actions, appearance or words of another person creates distance.
Jodie Cook
Why I sold my company
The agency was acquired by a marketing group with big plans and I stepped back from a day-to-day role. Here’s why.
Before you rush back to normal
Life feels like it’s getting back to normal but it might be a trap.
May 2021 on Forbes
Errors great leaders don't make, excuses successful people don't use, being a jack of all trades.
Don’t find time, steal it
The space to create that masterpiece or pen that musical won’t just fly into your calendar.
On doing nothing
Going forward with the wrong thing, the suboptimal allocation of your time or attention, costs more than just doing the wrong thing.
Sticking labels on people
What labels are you carrying around that no longer apply?
The key to heaven and hell
The same key can open the gates of heaven or the gates of hell. To what do we owe the difference in use?
Irons in the fire
If you put an iron in the fire every day, over time you have more than you know what to do with.
The same thing won’t work again
Methods, blueprints and formula work for science experiments but rarely for commercial success.
Working on my novel
Are you doing the right thing or finding plausible reasons to do the wrong thing?
Architects and bulldozers
It’s far easier to knock something over than it is to build it up.