Mike Zawitkowski Getting Things Done, Eagle Scout Style

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Digital Story Teller

Sunday, 15 August, 2010

Before attending the NewSpace2010 conference I had new business cards made up, which I love. The question and response I always get when I hand one out to people is my title: “Digital Story Teller.” In business (nay, in LIFE) we think in terms of stories. The ability to sell someone on an idea, a [...]

You Are Here

Tuesday, 29 June, 2010

Let me explain this dramatic header image : a mountain range, and three lines pointing to three phrases.
It has to do with one of the many skills I applied from Scouting to Business. First, allow  me to provide the legend to this cryptic introduction:

You are here. Literally, reality. If you had a working GPS, this is [...]

Randy Pausch on Time Management

Friday, 11 June, 2010

I just finished watching a lecture on Time Management by Randy Pausch. For those of you that don’t know, Randy Pausch was a professor at Carnegie Mellon who died at the age of 48 of pancreatic cancer. Before he died, he spent his time  giving a last lecture or two as part of his legacy [...]

4 Crucial Principles Businesses Rarely Follow

Tuesday, 8 June, 2010

(photo credit: greekadman)

This post originally appeared on the blog MusicForProfit.com /mz

In The One Minute Manager by Blanchard, Hutson, and Willis, you will find four simple rules for succeeding with any business. I am fascinated by these rules for two reasons:

I can’t (yet) disprove or improve them
I know of too many businesses that struggle because they IGNORE [...]