You Don't Have To Start From Scratch

It's Empowering To Be Asked To Look At What's Possible, Not Told How To Do It.

Your Job As An Executive Is To Edit, Not Write. It's Ok To Write Once In A While But If You Do It Often There's A Fundamental Problem With The Team. Every Time You Do Something Ask If You're Writing Or Editing And Get In The Mode Of Editing.

Those Words Are From Lynda Barry's Novel 'cruddy.' I've Carried Them With Me For Some Time. There's A Lot In My Life I Wasn't Expecting. One Is The Realization That I Stood At This Pulpit And Delivered A Reading For My Own Graduation...15 Years Ago. Unexpectedly, I'm Old.

Im Is Interesting Because You Look At Your Buddy List And, At A Glance, See What Your Friends Are Listening To, What They're Working On, What They're Doing. The Problem Was That You Were Bound To The Computer Keyboard.

I'm Less Interested In How People Are Following Each Other And More Interested In How They Are Following Topics And Tweets Themselves. People Are Following More Key Words And Concepts And More Ideas And Acting On Those Rather Than Individuals Or Organizations.