The Boss of You

“Bring your whole self, and hold it lightly” – Tim O’Reilly I had the great privilege to hear Tim O’Reilly speak to the 2012 fellows at Code For America on their first day of a year-long program. This was an unrehearsed speech – really just some introductory remarks for a small audience – but the [...]

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LIke most humans, I’m riddled with habits I’d like to change. And like many folks, who follow the good ol’Gregorian calendar, I’ve been thinking about changing some of them with the turning over of the new year. I’ve got a bunch of small personal changes I’m trying to make, things like stretching every day, remembering [...]

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Over the rest of July, I’ll be answering some questions that were raised during our Small + Successful webinar we ran last month with GoToWebinar. We had several excellent questions, but sadly ran out of time to address them all. You can see the previous Q & A about bad reviews here and another about [...]

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Over the rest of July, I’ll be answering some questions that were raised during our Small + Successful webinar we ran last month with GoToWebinar. We had several excellent questions, but sadly ran out of time to address them all. You can see the previous Q & A about bad reviews here. I really loved [...]

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Over the rest of July, I’ll be answering some questions that were raised during our Small + Successful webinar we ran last month with GoToWebinar. We had several excellent questions, but sadly ran out of time to address them all. Here’s the first one. Now that user generated content and social networking are the norm [...]

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The long, long list of things I love would have two things right up near the top: striving for self-improvement(*), and the elegant use of technology to help humans do better. When the two come together, I get really, really excited. I discovered a lovely and incredibly useful tool a while ago, but was recently [...]

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We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been invited to participate in GoToMeeting’s excellent webinar series for entrepreneurs… and next week we’ll be presenting a 1-hour session: “Small + Successful: Defining and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Goals.” If you’ve read our book, you know that for us, success isn’t about being big or small – it’s about [...]

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I have a new post up on design*sponge: “How to Find the Right Employees.” I’ve written several pieces for Grace’s fabulous Biz Ladies series before, but this time I’ve delved a little deeper into when to hire, who to hire, and how to pay ‘em. If you’re interested in going back & reading my earlier [...]

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I had the great pleasure of speaking to a conference of yarn shop owners last week in Portland, at the annual Yarn Market News Small Business Conference, and one of the topics that came  up in our discussion was whether or not other yarn shop owners should do groupons (which I use here as a [...]

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If you haven’t read Bill Murray’s marvelous toast to Sofia Coppola at the NBR awards, I highly recommend it. (Go on, it’s short – just remember to come back here when you’re done.) Isn’t it lovely? I mean, of course it’s charming and wry and witty, as you’d expect from Bill Murray (whom I love [...]

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