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Content Creation: Get Out of the Blog Bog
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Content Creation: Get Out of the Blog Bog

A lot of people these days are blog-averse. If you’ve blogged haphazardly for a while, you likely feel as if you’re getting zero return emotionally or financially on your efforts in content creation. Pretty quickly you can find yourself stuck in the blog bog. So why bother to blog at all? Truth is, the benefits…

How to Use Writing to Track Your Big Ideas
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How to Use Writing to Track Your Big Ideas

People often ask me what I do as Chief Tracker at Tracking Wonder. I help people think. It’s that simple. Except it’s not. Thinking means that we don’t only come up with new and useful big ideas. It also means my idea-collaborators and I think through how to translate the most viable of those ideas into…

Books That Matter to Author, Consultant & Speaker Jenny Blake

Books That Matter to Author, Consultant & Speaker Jenny Blake

Books That Matter is Tracking Wonder’s interview series that showcases influential thinkers’ and authors’ relationships with books that matter to them. Few people bring joyful mindfulness to entrepreneurship and to pivoting toward the next best thing the way dynamo Jenny Blake does. When corporate life nearly spent Jenny’s soul, she discovered the power of meditation…

Thought(ful) Leader Series: Author & Productive Flourishing Founder Charlie Gilkey

Thought(ful) Leader Series: Author & Productive Flourishing Founder Charlie Gilkey

  I have asked leaders in different fields whom I respect their views on leadership today and what conversations they think we need to be having. This week’s guest is ally and colleague Charlie Gilkey. A former Army officer in Iraq with a philosopher’s reflection and a productivity hack’s action, Charlie often raises questions & checks assumptions about…

The Psychology of Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception
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The Psychology of Seth Godin’s The Icarus Deception

There are thought leaders, and there are Thought Leaders.(1) And Seth Godin is the latter. Why? Godin is a Thought Leader not only because he’s smart. Not only because he’s prolific and creative. Godin is an archetypal Thought Leader because he understands the nature of Thought itself. He gets what drives human beings. He understands story and…

13 Books for Thought(ful) Leaders
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13 Books for Thought(ful) Leaders

The most effective, influential leaders of their pack read. They read a lot. But in my own experience and in reviewing the reading habits of key leaders in different fields, something surprising surfaced: Maybe it matters less how much you read and matters more how diversely you read. If you’re a business owner or a thought leader or…

The Story Learning Gap for Authors & Business Artists
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The Story Learning Gap for Authors & Business Artists

There’s no reliable place where entrepreneurs and business artists can gather to learn how to bring their trade nonfiction book’s story from the stage to the page.

How Seth Godin’s Book The Icarus Deception Works
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How Seth Godin’s Book The Icarus Deception Works

  There are thought leaders, and there are Thought Leaders.(1) And Seth Godin is the latter. Why? Godin is a Thought Leader not only because he’s smart. It’s not only because he’s prolific and creative. Godin is an archetypal Thought Leader because he understands the nature of Thought itself. He gets what drives human beings. He understands…

How Branding Wiz Marty Neumeier’s Metaskills Succeeds
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How Branding Wiz Marty Neumeier’s Metaskills Succeeds

How do successful books work? We think they succeed because of some insider mystery, talent, or connection. There is insider knowledge. But the insider knowledge that matters is what can make you a more informed reader and  a more captivating author with a brave new story. For a while, I’ve wanted to create book review videos…