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Madonna,'The Queen Of Pop'., originally uploaded by alexcruzdemalta.   What can this lady teach you and I about re-inventing ourselves? About change?  To start again, to think anew, to ask a new question: Re-invention is possible. Change is all around us; in our government in our economy and in our personal expenditures. Change and re-invention […]

                                                                      Winter sunset over water, originally uploaded by piggley.   Thanksgiving has come and gone and as I watch a sunset not nearly as glorious as the one above I find myself hungry, not for more mashed potatoes orThanksgiving fare but rather hungry for time alone, time for gratitude practice.  So tonight I will share  my "grateful" list, with you.  My gratitude practice […]

Richard Misrach – Untitled 06 (Series from On the Beach).jpg, originally uploaded by drowned.boys. This weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle to seeRichard Misrach; On The Beach collection  http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/misrach/  Click the middle of the photo the arrow will take you forward and back through his entire collection. The collection […]

  Heterosuggestions are suggestions from another person or source that may or may not be true.  In economic conditions like we find ourselves in today, there is no shortage of toxic heterosuggestions. It seems every news source available to man has become a sewer line of toxic facts, figures and opinions. Now, reality is a […]

Twitter pated over Guy Kawasaki’s advice on how to pick up followers on Twitter… Confused by the conversation around connecting, leading, tribes, raving fans, followers and dream teams? Perhaps if we could separate all the social network-“follower, friends” advice from the leading, loyal tribes, creating raving fans and galvanizing movements know-how it would be easier, […]

Having a tough day? Your to do list; stressing you out? Feel like running in the opposite direction? Maybe if you just stick your head in the sand, all this will go away or better yet if you skip the biggies on the top of your list and just do the minutia on the bottom […]

I’m sitting here preparing to be on a panel for Crave Business Tomorrow in Seattle. The best way for me to get clear, to prepare to talk; is to write. Weird; I know, but true. The next best way for me to guarantee I’m clear is to; get real. I don’t know about you, but […]

Team Matters…because "WITH" is a powerful thing. Jim Collins in “Good To Great” reminds us “first who” then “where.”  The team you surround yourself with is…. one of the most important decisions you will make in life and in business. People matter. With the right people “on the bus” Collins reminds us; we can go […]

People ask me all the time, "What do you do and do you do it just in Seattle? Are you a consultant specializing in business consulting or are you a business coach; and if so what’s the difference?" Business Consulting. Business Coach. Business Consultant. Mostly I am team. I team with entrepreneurs, founders and their […]

"The fox knows many things…but the hedgehog knows one "BIG" thing." Isaiah Berlin. Jim Collins termed the hedgehog concept in his bestseller, "Good To Great." He drew a picture around the Greek parable of a crazy fox chasing after every thing it smelled, contrasted to the deliberate, intentional and focused hedgehog; who knows one thing […]