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I have been chewing on a few ideas for awhile now. Earlier this week I attended a Meetup for readers of Seth Godin’s “Linchpin”. The event helped me solidify some ideas. I liked the event. There were less than 20 people there. There was opportunities for “networking”. Welcome networking. Not 100 people in a room [...]

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I am reading Seth Godin’s new book: Linchpin. I love it. He is posting some snippets on his site. I like this one a lot: Jacqueline Novogratz on how to recognize a linchpin from Seth Godin on Vimeo.

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I wanted to capture this series of articles by Don Sull of the Financial Times. I can’t share via Twitter from the office so I am opting to compile here. The series looks at The First Jesuits by John W. O’Malley. Sull and O’Malley hold up the Jesuits as a group that practices strategic agility. [...]

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I’m trying to re-engage. I am. I swear. Back in August, Tom Peters published his Recession46 – strategies for getting through. I just went back to them. I like them all. I am thinking about reading these every morning. As a prayer. A mantra. Some that I particularly like: ” You buck yourself up with [...]

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Or at least one of them. WSJ had an article awhile back: When Returning to Work is Harder Than It Seems. This is a solid read for those of us that have been out of work for a long time. The article quotes that the average layoff time is around 6.5 months. I completely identify [...]

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I am. I have embraced it. It is not going to last much longer. But I have accepted it and it is ok. Last Wednesday, I was informed that funding would not be coming any time soon for the non-profit I thought had a position for me in September. There was some other talk – [...]

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Just read  a July 8th article from Knowledge@Wharton: Caught in the Middle: Rising Unemployment Takes Its Toll on Older Managers that will cause you to lose some sleep. Especially if you are believing the hype that “it is getting better out there.” It isn’t. And it won’t. The opening paragraph sets the pace: U.S. recessions [...]

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I suppose I should start this review off with a disclaimer. I am Alan Webber’s target audience. He was a managing editor of the Harvard Business Review and the cofounding editor of Fast Company. I am a card carrying member of the Fast Company Nation and read HBR whenever something catches my eye.I am a [...]

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The McKinsey Quarterly had an article back in March of the “New Normal.” I have read this short article several times and recommend you do the same. There is a lot of insight amid the prediction. It is clear that we are not just going through a new boom/bust cycle. As the author says, we [...]

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