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Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late: Define Your Priorities Now

Posted on October 29, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Some good advice about priorities from Clayton Christensen over at the HBR: Over the years I’ve watched the fates of my HBS classmates from 1979 unfold; I’ve seen more and more of them come to reunions unhappy, divorced, and alienated … Continue reading →

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How To Meet Your Heroes and Win Mentors

Posted on October 19, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Have you noticed that little kids can do just about anything they want?  There’s a mountain of stories about young kids getting an audience with some business or government leader simply because they wrote a letter.  Successful people, and people … Continue reading →

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How to Earn Their Trust and Stop the Nagging

Posted on October 7, 2011 by AJ Kessler

There’s generally a big lag time between the time you make a change and the time that change is recognized. You undoubtedly noticed this as a child.  You demonstrate you know something, or know how to perform some task, but … Continue reading →

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Minimum Viable Personality

Posted on September 30, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Excellent thoughts here on cultivating personality in your products.  Note that just about everything can be thought of as a product.  If you produce reports for a living, the report is your product.  You can create a brand out of … Continue reading →

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Stop: You Don’t Know His Motivation Until You Ask

Posted on September 29, 2011 by AJ Kessler

A friend of mine once bought a house for roughly half of what it was worth.  The market was still booming.  The seller certainly could have gotten more.  Why would anyone make such a terrible deal? John G. emailed to … Continue reading →

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Relationship Rot

Posted on September 23, 2011 by AJ Kessler

More pithiness from Seth Godin: Most partnerships don’t end up in court. Most friendships don’t end in a fight. Most customers don’t leave in a huff. Instead, when one party feels underappreciated, or perhaps taken advantage of, she stops showing … Continue reading →

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How Could Anyone Live Here?

Posted on August 24, 2011 by AJ Kessler

If you’ve traveled at all, even if it’s just a few miles from your home, you’ve undoubtedly run across places that you can’t imagine living.  Desolate or teeming, scorching or freezing, swamp-like or bone-dry, gaudy or spartan, run down, dilapidated … Continue reading →

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It’s Always Incompetence

Posted on August 21, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Whenever an event can be explained by either a vast conspiracy or simple incompetence, always assume incompetence. This is merely a corollary to Hanlon’s Razor, but it can save you just as much anguish.

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People Aren’t Racists, They’re Assholes

Posted on August 13, 2011 by AJ Kessler

If I was black, I’m pretty sure I would think a huge section of our society was racist.  If I was flamboyantly gay, I’m pretty sure I would think a huge section of our society was homophobic.  If I was … Continue reading →

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After You’ve “Made It”

Posted on July 18, 2011 by AJ Kessler

A lot of people in their teens and 20s, and a fair amount of people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, have this idea that once they make it, once they’re successful, they’ll finally be able to tell people to … Continue reading →

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Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems?

Posted on June 5, 2011 by AJ Kessler

I’m unabashedly pro-wealth.  I think the recognition of personal freedoms that allow capitalist systems to function has done more to benefit mankind than any other development since humans discovered how to wield fire.  That said, I’ve thought and written much … Continue reading →

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