Over the years, I have enjoyed exchanging words with others who maintain the tradition of declaring a word in honor of the New Year, something to hang our hopes on and help clarify direction.
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Empty shelves, a weathering beach house, and a red barn dream.
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I have been hiding out in the woods as much as possible in recent months. Last night was the first time I ventured out to reconnect with our local entrepreneurial community in a good while.
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At the end of our last Folly Beach retreat, while facilitating our closing session, I felt a subtle yet sincere shift happening. I wrote one simple word on the page I was working on as a result: Refuge.
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I am, what a compassionate school psychologist might refer to as, an “experiential learner”. However, I am coming to accept that the other side of that same coin may hold the inscription “stubborn as hell”.
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After weeks of feeling like I had 27 simultaneous hamster wheels racing in my mind, and I couldn’t channel a clear sense of focus into any one of them, yesterday I finally experienced the swoosh that comes when we convene back into flow.
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One of the most common questions that I receive from people who are interested in starting their own business is, “what does it take to succeed?” Over the years I have boiled my answer down to these two core characteristics
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A few months back, when I was engaging Birds Eye in a deep strategic planning process, a friend reminded me of what it means to create a culture inspired by a starfish versus a spider.
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Today is the day that we recalibrate with the offering of an extra day. Leap day is making up for the accumulation of the incremental misalignments between the calendar and the natural world.
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