Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabulary and hones a new voice.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.