SOB Business Cafe 11-17-06

Filed Under Basics, Business Life, Great Finds, Motivation/Inspiration, Successful Blog, Tech/Stats, Tips, Trends | 2 Comments

SB Cafe

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We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are



Steve Farber wrote the handbook on being extreme.

the Extreme Leader's Online Interactive Handbook



SuccessCREEations has something fresh to say about business blogging. Don’t let the title fool you . . .

Business Blogging 101 [2]



Make It Great! has a question for you about Raj Setty’s book.

Want to Win a Book



Howard Lindzon explains how brave and shameless work in the world of Web2.0

Borat and Paris Hilton have something in common



Innovation Zen starts the year end with the first list of cool stuff.

Best Office Inventions 2006

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Blog Chalk Talk demonstrates how to get through an in-box like a surgeon.

Chilly Morning Blogger Email Autopsy Slash Vivisection



The Zero Boss serves the tip of the day with attitude. Be sure to capture the URL for Ice Rocket, if you’ve never been there.

Blog Tip of the Day UTW

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Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Finding Your Frequency in Business and in Life

Filed Under Analysis, Branding, Business Book, Business Life, Motivation/Inspiration, Successful Blog | 49 Comments

I've been thinking . . .

I’d known him for 7 years when, in 1995, I hired him as my “partner-in crime,” and my intellectual sounding board. Officially he was a consultant on an internaltional venture.

That week he’d introduced me to my counterparts in the UK — 23 meetings in 10 days. After the last meeting, he suggested a leisurely lunch on the next day, before I left for Heathrow. . . .

We’re close friends, but I didn’t know about lunch.

Finally, I said, “Only if you show up. I don’t want to see the guy who’s been with me all week — I want the person I know.”

Lunch was at a small bistro. The fruit creme brulé was spectacular. The wine was wonderful. The conversation was even more than I’d hoped for.

My friend had one way to be in business and another in real life. I suppose that’s not so uncommon. . . .

But that doesn’t mean it’s the best way. Does it?

Steve Farber, was working for Tom Peters way back then. Now he’s a leadership coach and author of Radical Leap and Radical Edge, a two-book narrative on extreme leadership and personal growth. He’s got words for what I was thinking and where I want to go.

In Radical Edge, the characters — Steve, himself, is one — call what I’m thinking of finding your frequency. They say these things about it in a scene over dinner.

“The first thing we have to do is find our frequency, find our station, the one thing that clearly expresses who we are at our core.”

“You have no business, no money no life without yourself right at the center.”

“I don’t know how much of that I could have accomplished if I hadn’t found my frequency.

Steve wrote the book, and he questioned the idea, “Human beings are more complicated than than that.”

He got this answer.

“Yes they are, But it’s not about finding your frequency by ruling out everything else; on the contrary, it’s about finding the frequency that includes all those other important values and ideals. The very act of trying to wrap it all up is what’s really important, because in order to do so, you have . . . define them, think them through, understand them to their core, and evaluate your life against each one.”

I can’t quit thinking about how much sense that makes. It’s the extreme added-value of relationships to really “show up” at the table. It’s the “authentic voice” of leadership, of being who I am I could argue that it’s what my gene pool was designed for.

Talk about finding a way to make a life, change the world, and have no regrets that you’ve used what you’ve got.

If you know what you value, you value what you have to offer.

I’m tuning out the static, to home in on my signal.

Can you hear me now?

Is this better?

Imagine what we can do when we can actually hear each other.

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