That’s what Chartreuse says. If you want to know what to say when someone asks about the new media. He has the answer in 13 sentences.
Writing is thinking made visible they say. This is brilliant writing.
Click the title. Go see.
Be sure to follow that first link.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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I’m ready to write something and as I sit at the keys, it’s gone. It was a spectacular idea. I know it was. Damn. It’s the second time this week, or is it the third? Suddenly I’m forgetting things — things that I’ve never forgotten before.
I used to be known for this memory of mine. Some folks even steered clear of it, feared it. They knew it could track details for decades and offer them back at lightning speed. Now what? A brain of mush has moved in where the razor sharp memory was. . . .
-Stop-
That’s the voice of a Bad Boy of Business. Bad Boys are negative messages, bad tape recordings, in our heads. Bad boys are ideas that we tell ourselves that undercut our success and productivity.
The bad boy here is “You’re losing you’re memory.”
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We land a new position, change careers, or finally take the plunge and start that business of our own that we’ve always thought about and for the first few weeks, few months we’re sailing. Enthusiastic beginner they call it. Even though we’re not beginners. It’s the newness. Everything’s shiny. Then, it’s not.
A Bad Boy roars into our thnking. Bad Boys are negative messages, bad tape recordings, in our heads. They’re things we tell ourselves that undercut our success and productivity.
The bad boy here is “You’re a Fraud, a Fake, a Phony.”
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For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this Blogging Question.
What’s the single biggest roadblock that stands between you and the successful blog you want?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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“But Mom, I need one.”
“No.”
“Why?”
“Because.”
Around age 3 1/2, iit becomes, “Because I said so.”
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I’ve been thinking all day about a story Tom Peters used to tell back in the early 90s. It went something like this. Bear with me, oral history changes in the telling.
Tom Peters at the Steel Company
It was during the time all of the big steel companies, such as US Steel. were suffering, hurting. One small company — small for the steel business — about 1200 employees was doing fine, growing as I recall the story. Tom Peters went out to Ohio to speak with the president of the company. He wanted to know how this company could be beating the odds. Then he found out something even more interesting. The company had no job descriptions. As I remember, Tom quoted the dialogue this way.
Tom said something like, “How can you run a company of 1200 people with no job descriptions?”
The president answered, “We’re trying a new management technique. We talk to each other.”
Forgive me, Tom, if I got the details slightly skewed. It’s clear that I got the point. I’ve passed it on for years, with your name attached.
Just now when I went to Tom Peters’ blog to find a link, I found this one. It asks whether the great ideas of the past, such as those of Tom Peters had a positive impact. Click the title to read the short post about it.
Yeah, I think the impact has been positive. I’m still passing it on.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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