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Success Strategies for ADD / ADHD Entrepreneurs
What does ADD mean? ADD is short for Attention Deficit Disorder or ADHD for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It's also abbreviated as AD/HD. Occasionally ADD is used for the non-hyperactive form of the condition, but normally the terms are used...
Social Entrepreneurs Must Stop Throwing Starfish
Motivational speakers love the starfish story: A man walking along a shore covered with washed-up, dying starfish notices a boy throwing them back into the ocean, one by one. The man says to the boy that there are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish, and...
Expertise Can Cause Blindness
Changing the world requires leaders with new vision. Six blind men are asked to determine what an elephant looks like by touch. The one who touches its leg says the elephant is a pillar; the one who touches the tail declares it a rope; the one who touches the trunk...
The Power of a Personal Story
Imagine attending a lecture titled "People, Planet and Profit: The New Business Paradigm." The lecturer has beautiful charts and graphs, describing technical points to get her ideas across. The event is brilliant and informative. Then, fade to black and shift to a...
Why an Authentic Professional Identity is Your Best Bet
Back in the early 80's I was standing in line for a waterslide at the social hour during a computer graphics convention. As an introverted software engineer, I always dreaded those networking events because they were so formal and held in stuffy hotels -- I didn't...