The Long Goodbye Ever feel like life, especially as the years stack up, starts to feel a bit like… one long goodbye? It’s a funny thing. You pour your heart and soul into relationships, into projects, into communities. You build something amazing with people you care about. Kids grow up […]
Every so often, I try to take my expectations up a notch in an endless quest for excellence. The first time I really discovered how far I could take excellence was when William L. Belan, who was on the committee approving the written analysis for my Master’s Project told me […]
“Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; they were mourned; hearts were breaking on their account; tears were being shed; accusing memories of unkindnesses to these poor lost lads were rising up, and unavailing regrets and remorse were being indulged: and best of all, the departed were the talk […]
From “Things I Never Told My Children” I’m sure I demonstrated my “real” values to my kids as they were growing up — good and bad. That’s easy. We live, they watch and the truth comes out. What I didn’t do was actually tell them what I thought and believed […]
The best way that I know to have impact is to focus on key actions that directly impact the core elements of a process. There’s no word in the English language for what I want to express so I’ve made one up. Let’s call that impact the “coreaction factor” and […]
I’m sure I demonstrated my “real” values to my kids as they were growing up — good and bad. That’s easy. We live, they watch and the truth comes out. What I didn’t do was actually tell them what I thought and believed to be true. The truth was, I […]
What do you do, when you work really hard on something, run it by the people you respect the most and the reviews are NOT want you hoped for? Getting feedback is an “interesting” exercise. While I don’t believe in the “the masses rule” over individual expression, it’s clear that […]
Shel Horowitz is working on his 10th book, Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (Morgan James, 2016)” and asked me the question … “Can you give me 500 to 1500 words (shorter is better) on how the work you’re doing allows the business community to profit while meaningfully addressing hunger, poverty, war, and/or catastrophic climate change?”
I had the honor of interviewing Seth for my best-selling book “Impact: How to Get Noticed, Motivate Millions, and Make a Difference in a Noisy World,” and I wanted to share two stories that he told me to help me illustrate how small actions can make a big difference, that I used as the prequel to my book, “The Impact Factor: How Small Actions Change the World.” It was a gift Seth gave me without any expectation it would ever pay off for him. Now I’d like to pass this gift onto you.
Friday June 3rd 2011 in Denver Colorado Rick Butts is being held down on a bed on the 3rd floor of the Denver Health Care Hospital and the room is filled with nearly every nurse, resident, orderly and employee on the floor.
