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Does Your Manifesto have integrity?
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Does Your Manifesto have integrity?

ByJeffrey Davis

Don’t Just Ship It In the past 8 or so years, corporate manifestos, entrepreneur manifestos, and creative entrepreneur manifestos have popped up in many places. Some of them seem true. Many feel derivative. Manifestos are provocative mission statements (1). Numerous Internet personalities and business coaches tell “thinkerly” creatives to “Just Ship It” when it comes to…

Books That Matter to Michael Bungay Stanier
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Books That Matter to Michael Bungay Stanier

ByJeffrey Davis

  Books change our world views and spark revolutions, inside and out. [Tweet this] Books awaken what’s dozing. Books crack open our hearts and our lens of possibility. Books matter. Today marks our first feature for the second annual Books That Matter series. Books That Matter showcases influential wonder-trackers’ relationships with books that matter to them. Last year’s 8-week series was…

The Art of Wandering for Writers & Business Artists
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The Art of Wandering for Writers & Business Artists

ByJeffrey Davis

“I was cultivating stupidity.” That’s what Andre Dubus III said when he wrote his first memoir, Townie. The son of a prominent short story writer, Dubus had met success as a novelist, the least of his successes being that The House of Fog and Sand has membership in Oprah’s club. But when it came to…

It’s easy to say you make art only for yourself
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It’s easy to say you make art only for yourself

ByJeffrey Davis

We turned toward art as kids because we could not not create. But we also turned to art for our own defenses. It quieted the yelling downstairs. It salved the confusion of being an outsider when we didn’t have the language of feeling like an outsider. Retreating to the imagination’s citadel felt safe and strangely…

You only get one 2014. Make it your “Why not?” year.
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You only get one 2014. Make it your “Why not?” year.

ByJeffrey Davis

The Idea The idea started to congeal this past summer: In the past few years, I had offered a creative work flow series, an author’s mentorship program that sold out, and a live author’s intensive that sold out – all of which were met with great fanfare. But last summer, I yearned to offer something…

You are not a brand to sell. Stand up for the Story you must tell.
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You are not a brand to sell. Stand up for the Story you must tell.

ByJeffrey Davis

These four elements form the basis for the Story she had to tell, for the Story of what she and her business are all about, the Story of how she repeatedly, consistently, and effectively takes her clients and customers – her audience – from an undesired state to a desired state.

What’s the Buzz? The Tolls of Our Digital Addictions
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What’s the Buzz? The Tolls of Our Digital Addictions

ByJeffrey Davis

At age 24, Levi Felix was absorbed in the Los Angeles high-tech lifestyle, literally living and sleeping at the office and with his computer. Then his doctors warned him: With an ulcer and blood level 70 percent below normal, they told him he was killing himself. We love our digital stuff to death. At Wisdom…

Publishing Predictions for 2014
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Publishing Predictions for 2014

ByJeffrey Davis

It might seem foolish to make predictions about the world of publishing. But being ignorant to the trends and shifts seems even more foolish if you’re a writer, author, service provider, or thought leader. Rapid changes and disruptions in publishing – brought on by a mix of the 2007-08 recession, the rise of digital technologies,…