Uncategorized When trust is low, speed goes down and cost goes up Consider another example, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in the U.S. in response to the Enron, WorldCom, and other corporate scandals. While it appears that Sarbanes-Oxley may be having a…
Uncategorized Why ChatGPT will profoundly transform every marketing career, starting now By Mark Schaefer You may not want to hear this, but you need to... (Most of the article is unedited transcription, so pardon the mistakes) FYI: Mark Schaefer is the…
Uncategorized “It’s not at all what we expected to see” “Let’s take a few moments to review the initial MRI findings,” she said. “I believe Ravi’s compiled a handout with the new results.” Our team had used Myrna’s multigenerational sample…
Uncategorized Life Itself Is Grace Listen to your life. All moments are key moments. I DISCOVERED THAT IF you really keep your eye peeled to it and your ears open, if you really pay attention…
Writing tips More rearranging, more revising, more adding, more subtracting. We may have collected seventeen points and realize that’s crazy, so we pare it down and work with three or four or five. More rearranging, more revising, more adding, more…
Uncategorized The rise and fall of my Web3 creator token. A drama in four acts A great learning experience shared by Mark Schaefer https://businessesgrow.com/2022/11/28/creator-token/
Uncategorized The Economics of Trust A cynic might ask, “So what? Is trust really more than a nice-to-have social virtue, a so-called hygiene factor? Can you measurably illustrate that trust is a hard-edged economic driver?”…
Writing tips Getting Started WRITE A LITTLE EVERY DAY. Often the biggest hurdle for beginning writers is getting the butt in the chair. That sounds callous, but it’s true-discipline is terrifically hard. And yet…
Marketing tips, Publishing tips, Writing tips How to measure momentum The sustainability of your momentum is LOW and it’s time for a shift if Others can replicate, improve upon, or offer a viable substitute for what you do.Customers view you…
Uncategorized An Advent Wreath for Advent – 2022 Many, this time of year, put a Christmas wreath on their door, The Advent wreath is similar, yet, it is so much more. Holding five candles, each has a meaning…
Uncategorized The use of the term cost It is hard to think clearly about process in an environment where most of us are surrounded with products we did not participate in planting, harvesting, designing, manufacturing, transporting, or…
Uncategorized Many are at a loss about how to help their children develop spiritually In my nearly two decades of conversations with parents about spirituality development - their children’s or their own - I have found that whether parents identify as religious, spiritual but…
Uncategorized ‘America’s Next Great Author’ Competition Films Pilot Seventy-five emerging authors from around the country gathered on October 30 and 31 in Newark, N.J., to tape the pilot for a reality show called America’s Next Great Author. Read more here.
Uncategorized “The greatest heresy in the history of monotheism” We saw with heart-breaking clarity how Christian Zionism hurts Palestinians, whether they’re Christians or Muslim. We also saw how Christian Zionism has become a fundraising tool for extreme right-wing political…
Uncategorized Pay attention to that inner task It is when we begin to pay attention, and seek integrity precisely in the task within the task that we begin to move from the first to the second half…
Uncategorized Why Twitter is stuck (and will remain that way) Wow! A very important article from Mark Schaefer: https://businessesgrow.com/2022/11/03/twitter-is-stuck/
Uncategorized Trust, confidence, and suspicion Simply put, trust means confidence. The opposite of trust - distrust - is suspicion. When you trust people, you have confidence in them, in their integrity and in their abilities.…
Uncategorized No one had yet looked Contemporary psychotherapy tended to characterize spirituality and religion as a crutch or defense, a set of comforting beliefs to lean on in hard times. In our field, spirituality was a…
Marketing tips, Writing tips The relevance of your momentum is LOW and it’s time for a shift if Your core audience wants more for less.Their purchase frequency or attention is declining.Customers are seeking new capabilities well outside your core competency.You’ll require more resources just to maintain the status…
Writing tips Precision Precision begins with defining terms. Recently I asked a group of students to write down their working definitions of five terms whose imprecise usage in recent public discourse poses a…
