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The Mile High Club
I got your recent email. The chirpy tone and bringing me up to date with what was happening made me feel strange. Didn’t you know that we’ve broken up? Didn’t you get the message? When I stopped...
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The Nobility of Digitial Community – A Different Look
Community. It’s a word that we throw around a lot. But what does it actually mean? And why do we care? Let’s start with the last question. Why do we care? In an age obsessed by the idea of...
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140 Characters Of My Life That I’ll Never Get Back
I stopped following you today. You probably didn’t notice. Nothing personal. It’s just life. Why? As I said — life. An amazing thing happens when you get over-committed as I have in recent months....
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Dear Dad…Here’s what I’m not going to tell you
I’m about to call you to wish you a happy Father’s day. I talked to you just a few days ago – it was your birthday – so I won’t have a lot to say on this call. I will have a lot that I could say. I...
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Internet Addiction – Why You Need To Break the Cycle Before It’s Too Late
My name is Jim and I’m an internet addict. There. I said it. That’s the first step in a 12 Step program. Admitting you have a problem. Which is great, except for one thing. How do you admit you...
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Buddha Gives Convocation Speech at Harvard
Harvard University’s MBA program made front page news today as Siddartha Gautama, also known as “the Buddha” addressed the graduating class of 2013. “For many of you, ” Buddha said in his opening...
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Corporate Sanity Officer? Imagine That!
It was 8:30 on a Monday morning when I got in to work. I was just back from my vacation. My office was a shambles. It had been torn apart. There was dust everywhere. My whiteboard had been taken...
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Did Zuckerberg do it on purpose?
A post has been making the rounds on the internet titled, “It’s Becoming Clear That No One Actually Read Facebook’s IPO Prospectus Or Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter To Shareholders.“ I had to admit that I...
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Several days after the end of the world…
I am told that the world ended on December 21st. Not a minute too soon. Not that anyone would miss it. Not after this year! Oh, yes, it started with great promise. New Year’s Eve came with...
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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,200 views in 2012. If...
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They killed Neo – the Matrix resumes
Hackers for right, we are one down.(from a tweet by Tim Berners-Lee father of the World Wide Web) His eyes haunt me. From those pictures that adorn the articles that pay tribute to this astonishing...
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Fear, Lies and Purpose
Today, I will not live in fear. For all too many years, I did. I lived with fear. Even as I write this I can replay the feeling. The tightening muscles. The cold rush of adrenaline. It stops you...
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The Cloud Manifesto
The Catalyst for Cloud I just spent two great days in Banff at the Cloud Matters conference representing IT World Canada. The conference had over 175 people and a star-studded list of speakers. At...
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For a song…
This blog was inspired by work done by a group of us to assist in flood relief. The project created the video “Carolyn and I” which to assist the fundraising effort. You may want to follow this link...
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ROC – Return on Curiousity?
This is a story about the future impact that Waterloo can have on the country and maybe even the world. But it’s NOT about Blackberry. Crazy, you say? Today, on a beautiful Friday afternoon in late...
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Where Are the Snowdens of Next Year?
The enemy of freedom is not tyranny. It’s complacency. Our freedom, our lives – all that we believe in and hold dear does not get ripped from us all at once. It happens, as T.S. Eliot so famously...
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Hot Potato – Why We Need To Rethink Management
Remember that childhood game, “Hot Potato”? You would take a ball, beanbag or other item and pretend it’s a hot potato. As soon as you got it you’d pass it on to the next person. Then at the end...
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The Lucky Ones
A bit of a warning here. This is probably more personal than my average post. I’m not sure how relevant it is to those who come here looking for business or strategy. But at this time of year, my...
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A small book about leadership
For the next weeks and months, I’m going to take a new direction. I’m exploring the idea of leadership as I teach a course at Waterloo on the topic. Emerging from the research and lectures appears to...
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Chapter 1 – What is Leadership?
To study anything; to truly look at it in an objective way and then to share that experience is a true challenge. First you must first be able to agree on what it that you are talking about. That...
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