Category: Learn
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Disruptors Only Disrupt Bad Business
As companies continue to fall victim to giant online retailers like Amazon, Zappos and other entities, let me caution you: Amazon isn’t killing them. When it comes time to point fingers, the only one to blame is the leadership of the company being disrupted. Filling in for a regular radio host on WHO Radio in spring of…
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There are no creative jobs or industries
Despite numerous surveys and even the tax code providing the option “creative” when they ask participants to define their industry, this ostensibly innocuous categorization perpetuates an incorrect stereotype. The very idea that someone has a creative job or works in a creative industry is not only wrong but destructive. Think for a moment what skills…
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Don’t Be A Failure Hypocrite
If you’re at least a little interested in human creativity and the invention process, you’ve heard it a thousand times: Fail fast to learn faster, failure is necessary to innovate, we must fail to succeed, blah blah blah. The truth is, the large majority of us suffer from failure hypocrisy. Let me show you what…