Month: November 2014

  • Do givers win in business?

    YOU WANT NOTHING FROM ME? When I came across the official website for Adam Grant’s new book Give and Take, they offered a free download of chapter 1. I thought this was another lead magnate (an incentive to sign up for an email list), but when I clicked on the button the strangest thing happened. […]

  • Bad pages always trump blank pages

    Somehow, I came across a quote by romance writer Norah Roberts a few weeks ago (I swear I wasn’t reading her latest novel or anything). Its simplicity was so on-the-mark, it stuck with me. BLANK CANVAS The blank canvas is such an idealized thing. It represents to us that whatever we have in our heads […]