Posts Tagged ‘future’
The Future We Want To See
Sometimes we fail to act because we’re afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. So we say and do nothing and wait for the discomfort of the moment to pass. It’s easier to turn a blind eye than it is to simply say: ‘This is not okay.’ But the future we’re building together depends…
Read MoreOn Ambition
Before I went to high school, everyone in our year sat an aptitude test. We were eleven years old, and the assessment took place over three hours one morning early in summer. The goal was to identify each student’s potential and stream girls into year groups based on their IQ. The theory being that matching…
Read MorePermission To Reset
We’re used to using the reset button on our devices to reboot them. We think nothing of shutting down our technology and starting again. We didn’t know how to do that for ourselves and humanity until this week. We’d forgotten we could come together as communities and nations and agree to pause for the collective…
Read MoreCreate The Future You Want To See
The best investment I ever made in myself and my business was buying a copy of Seth Godin’s book, Purple Cow. Seth taught me that remarkability was a choice. Just as business owners don’t work just to pay the bills, writers don’t write just so they can eat. They write to create the change they…
Read More3 Questions To Help Your Business Evolve With Your Customers
The sign next to the juice bar announces that waiting is over. “Don’t Line UP. Order on our app.” No interruption to your day required. Have you noticed how waiting has gone out of fashion and the slew of products, apps, services and shortcuts that have come to market which are designed to give us…
Read MoreThe Secret Of Disruptive Innovations
When the online eyewear retailer Warby Parker began selling boutique-quality glasses at a $95 price point they weren’t just trying to undercut the bigger players in the industry. Of course they did that and more, growing the company by 500% in just a year and mostly by word of mouth. The average customer who needs…
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