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Who do you work for? (And who works for you?)

I always took the position that my boss (when I had a job) worked for me. My job was to do the thing I was hired to do, and my boss had assets that could help me do the job...

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Different kinds of work If your boss asks you to move a box from...
Everyone’s model of work is a job That's the conclusion of a very long essay on startups...
Who judges your work? Here's the mistake we make in high school: We let...

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Don Quijote didn’t ship

Society makes heroes out of entrepreneurs and adventurers that tilt at windmills and succeed. Napster slays the music industry! Twitter comes out of nowhere! The thing about taking on the biggest giants is that most of the time (so often...

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Quieting the lizard brain How can I explain the never-ending irrationality of human behavior?...
Genius is misunderstood as a bolt of lightning Genius is the act of solving a problem in a...
Incoming! Perhaps the biggest change in your worklife is one that...

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All you need to know…

is that it's possible. Mike sent me a great story about an ultra-lightweight backpacker: "Wolf was carrying a super-small pack which weighed 14 pounds including food and water. When asked how he got his pack weight so low, Wolf would...

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Will you miss them if they leave? (Call for linchpins)

If you know someone who does great work, who brings passion and humanity with them instead of leaving it at the door of the factory, I’d like to help you celebrate them. Read on for three ways you can do...

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The Wordperfect Axiom When the platform changes, the leaders change. Wordperfect had a...
Jumping the gun There's going to be a lot of hoopla this week,...
Helping spread the word Since Linchpin was published six weeks ago, I've gotten some...

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Sentences, paragraphs and chapters

It's laughably easy to find someone to critique a sentence, to find a missing apostrophe or worry about your noun-verb agreement. Sometimes, you're lucky enough to find someone who can tell you that a paragraph is dull, or out of...

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Wondering around I stumbled on a great typo last night. "Staff in...

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Are you an elite?

In the developing world, there's often a sharp dividing line between the elites and everyone else. The elites have money and/or an advanced education. It's not unusual to go to the poorest places on earth and find a small cadre...

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Welcome to the frustration decade (and the decade of change) Here are my picks for the two most important trends...

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Surfing is the new career

Three months ago I wrote about farming and hunting. It seems, though, that the growth industry of our generation is surfing. Talk to surfers and they'll explain that the entire sport comes down to the hunt for that blissful moment...

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Career fairs… are neither. Of course they don't exist to help you...
No, everything is not going to be okay It's natural to seek reassurance. Most of us want to...
The paralysis of unlimited opportunity There aren't just a few options open to you, there...

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Where do you find good ideas?

Do you often find ideas that change everything in a windowless conference room, with bottled water on the side table and a circle of critics and skeptics wearing suits looking at you as the clock ticks down to the 60...

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Fear of bad ideas A few people are afraid of good ideas, ideas that...
Random rules for ideas worth spreading If you've got an idea worth spreading, I hope you'll...
Spring reading list–big ideas for idea people Readers have told me that they enjoy my off-the-wall book...

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Becoming a bus company

We all have a vision of the typical bus company, slowly moving people from place to place, going through the motions and showing a lot of fatigue. Some of the elements that make an organization feel like a bus company:...

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When in doubt, disaggregate The typical American buys precisely one book a year. Ouch....
It’s easier to teach compliance than initiative Compliance is simple to measure, simple to test for and...
We can do it Too often, it seems, this attitude is missing from teams,...

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Mentoring, platforms and taking a leap

How much support does someone need (or get, or deserve, you pick) before they ship their art? The fearful lizard brain demands reassurance and coaching and even a push before it is quiet enough to permit us to do the...

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Quieting the lizard brain How can I explain the never-ending irrationality of human behavior?...
Genius is misunderstood as a bolt of lightning Genius is the act of solving a problem in a...

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