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If you had to pick one, what’s more important to your career and company success right now–-productivity or creativity?
What if you’re the sixth CEO (in five years) of a troubled high tech firm in an era when your competitors’ new innovations are driving profit, reputation, and opportunity, almost overnight?
Then you might have done what Marissa Mayer did. Whether you like it or not. Read More →
Champion . . . winner . . excellence . . . if you’re like most of the world catching Olympic fever, words like this are coming at you as frequently as a Ryan Seacrest reference to Justin Bieber.
Yes, for the next few weeks, our digital devices will be overrun with emotion-generating stories of superhuman efforts and long-cultivated ability. For some, those stories might inspire and motivate. For others, though, they’re a downer.
A downer? How? How can our quadrennial celebration of sweat and accomplishment take us down rather than lift us up?
It’s not because we’re a community of lazy couch potatoes–really. It’s because we know that the price to be a champion is high—and we think it’s more than we have. Read More →
Today is Columbus Day in the US–the holiday that recognizes when Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, opening up a new world of possibilities.
It’s said Columbus was a Read More →
Last week, at the end of a long road trip of speaking engagements and meetings, I enjoyed a special treat–a visit to the headquarters of online retailer Zappos.com.
You may know Zappos for their amazing selection of shoes (and now clothes, accessories, and Read More →
One of the important things at Red Cape Revolution is to make it as simple, practical, and easy as possible for you to take the steps you need to take to bring your superpowers to work and start soaring through your career and life!
Along the way in our journey, we’ll sometimes discover tools and ideas we think Read More →
Here’s the third tip in our series on How to Bring Your Superpowers to Work. Read Tip 1: Brag on Yourself. Read Tip 2: Know Who You Need to Know.
And, don’t forget to tell us what you think by replying in the box at the end of the article, or on Facebook! Read More →
(Listen to this article here.)
After more than 4000 private phone calls were illegally hacked by News of the World reporters (causing a scandal that shut down the high-circulation, highly profitable newspaper) journalist Carl Bernstein quoted an employee who said that media baron Rupert Murdoch “invented and established this culture in the newsroom, where you do whatever it takes to get the story, take no prisoners, Read More →
Our favorite summer celebration is here again–Independence Day. Maybe you know it by its more famous moniker, “July 4th.”
Somehow, all this talk about the date–but not the holiday–rings flat to me. Whatever happened to saying “Happy Independence Day”? How did we lose the battle of the words? I’ve developed five theories:
1. Most of us don’t know what the date signifies.
There’s truth in that. My friend Ray reminds me that most people probably think “Independence Day” was just a cool Will Smith movie.
Now, I’m not a great student of history, but I know that July 4th is just a date. An anniversary, to be more specific, marking a time when Read More →
(Here’s the text of the graduation speech I was never asked to deliver to the current crop of 2011 college and university graduates. For the audio, listen here.)
Congratulation graduates! You’re saying goodbye to four years of academic challenge and entering the new world of work. Read More →
“Your life is always speaking to you,” said TV’s favorite teacher, Oprah Winfrey, as she closed out her 25 years of daytime television today. Of all the lessons she’s shared over the years, my favorite from today was to notice the whispers, the murmurs, the soft messages that we all have and hear–but don’t always notice.
I heard the whispers for years. At first, they were soft, so soft that the buzz of my Blackberry would drown them out. Then they got louder and louder, and while I tried to cover them up with Read More →
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