The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Good marketers measure.

I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.