Posts tagged “Leadership”

What you stand for and what it means for your business

March 23, 2009, written by Jeremy

How lessons learnt twenty years ago are changing the business I am a part of today.

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Forget tailor-made, just get it second-hand.

January 27, 2007, written by Jeremy

In an offline note a good friend challenges the concept of new, tailor-made companies. Instead he asks, “What about companies that need tailors … companies that need a new dress, ugly companies, those ones that need new shoes … …

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Wholemindedness: The brilliance of an unfettered mind

February 20, 2006, written by Jeremy

Time management’s greatest gift is wholemindedness.

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Deliberate attention to presence

February 20, 2006, written by Jeremy

Every moment is the last we will ever have.

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The brilliance of moments: how success is ultimately determined by now

February 17, 2006, written by Jeremy

I travel from Edmonton to Calgary and back almost every week.  It’s a three hour drive one-way, so I have a big chunk of time to listen to podcasts.  This week I listened to an interview, by Todd at …

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Advice for visionaries

February 5, 2006, written by Jeremy

Christopher Alexander in an interview with Kenneth Baker:

“If you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there. … If you’re working correctly, the feeling doesn’t

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philologr: platitudinous

February 3, 2006, written by Jeremy

platitudinous — plati·tu’di·nous — a derivative of plat·i·tude (plăt’ĭ-tūd, -tyūd), a noun meaning a trite or banal remark or statement, especially one expressed as if it were original or significant. Without freshness or appeal because of overuse: banal, bromidic, clichéd, …

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Conditions of success

March 21, 2005, written by Jeremy

On the heels of my heartfelt yop – Frickin’ amazing vs. the long tail – as if guided by benevolent deities, I found “What really works.” With bemused resignation I note the publication date of July 2003 – if I …

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