Posted in financial services, investment, leader, marketing innovation, network, nonprofit, social network, SPURspectives, transformation, Uncategorized on Apr 3rd, 2011
This week marks the 2nd anniversary of one of my favorite books written by one of my favorite people — The Pollyanna Principles by Hildy Gottlieb. Loyal readers of Spurspectives may have seen a few posts referencing this book. There are links to some of them below. This is one of my favorite books because [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 31st, 2010
One Memorial Day weekend in Dayton, Ohio during the mid 1960’s my entrepreneurial older brother conscripted my younger sister and I to assist him with one of his many get rich projects. We had yet to learn that we were not included on the list of potential beneficiaries. This particular endeavor involved creating a haunted [...]
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Last Saturday I led a group of volunteers providing an art therapy project for the kids at Marillac, a Kansas City hospital and school providing for the special educational needs of boys and girls with learning disabilities. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I have no experience with art therapy or special [...]
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Posted in branding, community, economic recession, investment, leader, lifecycle, marketing, marketing budget, network, social network, spur communications, SPURspectives, transformation on Mar 30th, 2010
Yesterday’s SPURspectives post talked about sowing the seeds for the future of your business so that you’re moving in a positive direction as the economy picks up. One way to do that is to look at your crop of existing employees and the crop of resumes crossing your desk. If you’ve been doing a good [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2009
Our last blog post prompted my friend Mark Van Baale to ask, “What happens when tribes belong to the same organization and don’t get along?” Ah yes, the dreaded silos of the corporate world. What should we call tribes within the tribe — subtribes? What should we call their dysfunctional behavior — subtribical behavior? When [...]
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Marketing guru Seth Godin has us all abuzz about creating and empowering our tribes — our group of like-minded individuals who choose to better the world by following their chosen leader. This is a wonderful idea and I’m happy to participate. Tribes are cool. They empower people to make good things happen and we accomplish [...]
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