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The Law of Category
I would like to thank everyone who joined in on the conversation on twitter and Facebook this past week regarding the Law of Leadership. If you would like to join in on the conversations I can be found on twitter at @jdstewart and of course I you can friend me on Facebook as well. The…
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Use Best Practices if You Want to be Average
There I was sitting in a boring meeting. My mind started to wander. I thought, “Who else in my industry goes to these types of meetings? Who else is doing what I do to try to build their business? No one!” My first reaction was, “Well since no one does it, it obviously is not a good…
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Experience is not a very good teacher.
A cliche, that appears to be universally believed is, “Experience is the Best Teacher.” My father once told me he disagreed. He said, “Experience is not the best teacher. It may be a good teacher, but it is not the best teacher.” He then went on to explain that experience can extract an extremely high…
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6 Tips For Starting an Innovation Program
Innovation is hard. If it were easy everyone would do it. But why is it so hard. Managing innovation is what is difficult. Creating a culture that supports innovation is certainly difficult. Then nurturing an idea into a product or services that people love is hard. Innovation is hard because there are so many myths…
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Misdirection
One of the most useful and important tools in a magicians arsenal is misdirection. Misdirection is generally misunderstood by the layman. Misdirection is not making you look at something while the magician is doing the sneaky stuff elsewhere. While that is the popular conception of misdirection it is woefully inadequate. Misdirection is letting you see…