Video: What One Man Can Do For God
A lot. Mix faithfulness with tenacity and you see this one man did amazing things, not for himself, but for God: If you can’t see the above video, click here, or watch directly on YouTube. This video convicts me as a Christian, as a marketer who understands that what should drive us is a genuine [...]
My Wife
It’s my wife’s birthday today. Happy Birthday my sweetheart – hope you’re enjoying the holiday! (She gets my blog in her email (BTW you can wish her a happy birthday on her Facebook profile.) The reason why I bring it up is because she is a woman who supports me unfailingly – the kind of [...]
Using A Community
I’m really enjoying Dan Blank’s blog at the moment. I first caught onto him through my close friend Andrew Davies at idio, and I’ve been following him for a while, but it seems these past few weeks I’ve really caught onto his writing a lot more. Last week he wrote a post that I knew [...]
Ecosystems: Riding on Them, and Creating Them
My friend Chris Brogan wrote a thinking peice last month on “Amazon and the Kindle Conspiracy” that many overlooked but I think warrants a deeper leadership discussion. Chris discusses how Amazon went from book distributor to pretty much anything distributor, and how he suggests that the Kindle could do the same thing. He talks about [...]
Are You Afraid To Give It Away?
I don’t know who first said it, but the idea of an open platform and being an active authority is that by equipping people with the best resources that aren’t your own – by sending them away – you get them back. This is the premise that most of the digitalls on Twitter follow. They [...]
Are You Living A Life Of Purpose?
Ok, so perhaps this is deep and delving a bit too much into people’s salads, but the other night I was at a dinner party and when asking about their interests and passions, the person said to me that they weren’t really doing the things they felt were a fulfilment of their life and found [...]
Are You Guiding Or Governing?
I was having a leadership discussion yesterday and the dilemma came up of wanting to have organic growth, but at the same time control the organic growth with checks and balances to ensure the brand wasn’t tarnished. It’s a discussion I’m sure many of you have had: whilst you respect your community or audience and [...]
