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I Moved Your Cheese
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I Moved Your Cheese

By Deepak Malhotra

February 3, 2025

Book of The Month: “I Moved Your Cheese”, by Deepak Malhotra Editor’s note: Each Christmas my dear friend, Sister Maureen Burke, gives me brain food, usually more than one book....
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Quote of the Month  |  Deepak Malhotra
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Quote of the Month  |  Deepak Malhotra

— Deepak Malhotra

February 3, 2025

  "“You, Zed, are asking them to be . But they have only learned to do ."   ---Deepak Malhotra, from “I Moved Your Cheese”        
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The Three Levels of Risk
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The Three Levels of Risk

February 3, 2025

Editor's note:  I'm asking forgiveness from Mardy Grothe, whose first and last names I misspelled when citing his wonderful quote blog,  www.drmardy.com , last month. Risk is an interesting topic,...
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Talk with Tim Ep. 5 Character Lending
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Talk with Tim Ep. 5 Character Lending

January 27, 2025

Before diving into marketing, Ron Mattocks and I take a step back to talk about my journey—how I built, sold, and reinvented businesses, and why I now spend my time...
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Talk with Tim Ep. 4 The List
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Talk with Tim Ep. 4 The List

January 27, 2025

A good list isn’t just a collection of names—it’s your biggest marketing advantage. In this episode of Talk with Tim, I break down how to identify the right customers, focus...
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Talk with Tim Ep. 3 Distilling Numbers
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Talk with Tim Ep. 3 Distilling Numbers

January 27, 2025

Numbers matter, but which ones should you actually track? In this episode of Talk with Tim, Ron Mattocks and I break down how to cut through the noise, focus on...
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Talk with Tim Ep. 2 Define the Need Then Fill it
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Talk with Tim Ep. 2 Define the Need Then Fill it

January 27, 2025

Marketing isn’t about throwing ideas into the wind and hoping something sticks. It starts with defining the need, building your list, and knowing exactly who you’re trying to reach. In...
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Talk with Tim Ep. 1: Marketing as a Business Discipline
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Talk with Tim Ep. 1: Marketing as a Business Discipline

January 27, 2025

Marketing isn’t about making things look pretty—it’s about knowing your customers and giving them what they actually need. In this episode of Talk with Tim, I sit down with Ron...
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Quote of the Month  |  Sal LeCesse
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Quote of the Month  |  Sal LeCesse

— Sal LeCesse

December 2, 2024

  “If you wake up, get up. If you get up, do something”. ---Sal LeCesse        
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Quote of the Month  |  Farnam Street
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Quote of the Month  |  Farnam Street

— Farnam Street

October 31, 2024

  “The healthy part of ego helps when we lose; the humble side helps when we’re winning” ---Farnam Street        
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Golden Rule 1.a, 1.b, and 1.c
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Golden Rule 1.a, 1.b, and 1.c

October 31, 2024

The best version of the golden rule is: “Treat others as you wish to be treated”. Ideally, that would be the only rule we need. But for real life, which...
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Warren and Bill
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Warren and Bill

By Anthony Mc

August 6, 2024

Book of The Month: "Warren and Bill" by Anthony McCarten Editor’s Note:   McCarten is a playwright, known for “Bohemian Rhapsody”, among other movies. This seems to make his writing...
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Fear and Love
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Fear and Love

July 1, 2024

Paulo Freire said, “The opposite of love is not, as we many times or almost always think, hatred, but the fear to love, and fear to love is the fear of...
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Newsletter: Planning for Failure

April 1, 2024

Writing good business plans is a key to success, but good plans must accommodate searching and failing over time to be effective.  Said differently, no plan is perfect – nor...
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Newsletter: Success in the Balance

April 1, 2024

Successful organizations are more about hard work and effectively deploying people than they are about great ideas.  Great ideas must be balanced by great work ethic, leadership and a balanced...
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Newsletter: God’s Not Done Yet

April 1, 2024

Great coaching creates great organizations.  Be careful not to judge your players too soon. [more] I was an aspiring advertising agency exec on a pretty fast track but I’d just...
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Quote of the Month  |  Seth Godin on AI
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Quote of the Month  |  Seth Godin on AI

— Seth Godin on AI

April 1, 2024

In 1840, at the dawn of the information age, the king of Sardinia asked Charles Babbage what nearly instant messaging like the telegraph could possibly be good for. Twenty years...
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The Secret to Employee Loyalty
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The Secret to Employee Loyalty

March 2, 2024

Ah, the golden key to loyalty among the ranks! Here it is: Invite your team to stick around for the long haul, but if they decide to fly the coop,...
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Questions and Answers
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Questions and Answers

January 24, 2024

The more questions I ask, the more certain the answers will be.  Questions lead to research; research leads to risk reduction in both business and in my life. My peer...
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Mi Casa es Su Casa
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Mi Casa es Su Casa

December 30, 2023

Successful lives and businesses are entirely built on interdependence.  In both, the key ingredients are time, self-awareness, and forgiveness; of myself and those on whom I must rely.  The alignment...
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Marcus Aurelius
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Marcus Aurelius

— Marcus Aurelius

November 30, 2023

“The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.”
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