Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Start by identifying the qualities or characteristics that make you distinctive from your competitors - or your colleagues. What have you done lately - this week - to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.

I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.