Think Remarkable

ENOUGH DEPRESSING NEWS. Someone on the radio (NPR) today said our nation has become…manic depressive— “it’s now worse than we thought it could be, we’re not spending, we’re not lending.”Well, let me just sit up and lend some inspiration to anyone who may need to dip their toes into it, from 10 reliable sources that are working for me.

People who know me know that I am inspired by people. In fact, I am an unabashed connoisseur of people. Each of these people/organizations represent boundless boatloads of “what is needed” to step into 2009, and even just a little balm from the soul of...

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A few days before Christmas I had an unexpected email from Tom Peters, asking me to write a post on tompeters.com, ten years later, about Brand You the idea, which he generated in l997 with the now famous Fast Company article, The Brand Called You, because, well, Erik Hansen and I were there, at the beginning,along with many others, helping give birth to Tom’s Work Matters Movement, the Brand You 50 book that followed, and lots of other cool stuff.  Its premise, more relevant today than ever, was that white collar jobs were going to disappear and that people with strong brands (aka...

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I want an RSS feed from Eric Schmidt to my brain!

While Mitt Romney reminds us on today’s Meet the Press that total NET WORTH HAS DROPPED for American families by $11 trillion (“boom.”) And Carly Fiorina tells us that
despite the bailout of the financial industry, those bailed out institutions are still NOTLENDING (“boom”)  Google CEO Eric Schmidt reminds us (as he’s thankfully advising the Obama transition team) that
we can look to INNOVATION and get A TWO-FER for ANSWERS TO THIS MESS WE’RE IN: fix the infrastructure and put people to work on roads, bridges, schools,
AND integrate it...

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Friday saw the economy wobble some more on the report that we had the biggest JOB LOSS in 34 YEARS.  The question that haunts me as we head into the holidays is what people who’ve poured themselves into one job, one company, one career, or for that matter A JOB, and no longer have it, must be feeling right now against the backdrop of so much fear? Many of us breathe some pretty rare air—it’s called, in the Benjamin Zander,  vernacular, possibility thinking. (You can see him in very rare form here http://poptech.org/popcasts/rss/popcasts)

Many of us have the SKILLS, the EXPERIENCE, the...

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