Go Long

November 28, 2010

Did you ever toss a football as a kid or a teen?  If so, chances are someone said to you, “Go long!”–meaning they wanted you to run some distance away from them and prepare to catch a long throw. As an adult in the working world or as an entrepreneur, you’re more likely to hear [...]

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Business Ethics among Friends

November 14, 2010

You’ve probably figured out by now that I’m comfortable with metaphor.  But while metaphor can help us to frame an issue or seek out opportunity, while it can alert us to questions we ought to be asking, I don’t usually find it as useful when it comes to methods for running my business–or for helping [...]

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Nature study for your business

November 14, 2010

If conventional business-building advice leaves you cold—if it feels inauthentic to you, or you suspect it won’t work with your customer base—you might be in need of a new paradigm to help you think through how to better build a new business or find new directions for an existing one.  In this post, I explore [...]

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Building a business is like creating a vivarium

November 1, 2010

You know about vivaria, yes? On its smallest scale, a vivarium is basically a combination terrarium and aquarium in which grow a variety of plants and perhaps a few animals.  They can be incredibly lovely, and their maintenance ranges from simple to very complex. Here’s an example: I have many dreams about vivaria.  To be [...]

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On not carving pumpkins

October 30, 2010

It’s the day before Halloween.  Pete is at the movies, and I’m taking a little “me” time away from drawing at the dining room table with our 5-year-old.  Pete was excited to go see a movie, but he’s even more excited to come home and carve pumpkins. Me, I’m not so excited. See, as a [...]

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