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Newsletter: Success in the Balance

By Tim McCarthy

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

By Tim McCarthy

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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AI is as Big a Change as the Internet
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AI is as Big a Change as the Internet

By 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

By Tim McCarthy

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

By Tim McCarthy

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

By Tim McCarthy

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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More/Less Control
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More/Less Control

By Marcus Aurelius

November 30, 2023

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

By Peter Hollins

November 1, 2023

The Spartans can teach us about discipline by subtraction rather than addition, i.e., what we choose to not focus on.
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How to Do Things you Hate
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How to Do Things you Hate

By Peter Hollins

November 1, 2023

Editor’s note:  This is the book I wish I could have written.  The title is the answer I’ve long given to anyone who asks me “what’s the key to success...
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The Liberal Art of Business
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The Liberal Art of Business

By Tim McCarthy

November 1, 2023

The last thing I expected when I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science was that I would have a successful business career.  My pursuit of a...
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In Pursuit of the Common Good
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In Pursuit of the Common Good

By A. E. Hotchner and Paul Newman

July 2, 2023

Editor’s Note:  A friend and I were talking about doing good and he said, “of course, you’ve read Paul Newman’s book about how he and his buddy, Hotch, got the...
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Trajectory to Change
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Trajectory to Change

By Farnum Street

July 2, 2023

Your life is designed to get the results you are getting right now. For the trajectory to change, your approach must change. - Farnum Street
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Excuses and Blame
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Excuses and Blame

By Tim McCarthy

April 27, 2023

“No one cares about your excuses as much as you do. In fact, no one cares about your excuses at all, except you." When people’s actions have outcomes that don’t...
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Seth Godin
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Seth Godin

By Tim McCarthy

April 2, 2023

How to change the world All successful cultural change (books, movies, public health), has a super-simple two-step loop: AWARENESS TENSION It’s easy to focus on awareness. Get the word out....
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Life Altering Books
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Life Altering Books

April 2, 2023

What books changed how you think?   The list below is a small but significant sample of the ones that have changed mine. The Bible , Old Testament; New Testament...
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Measure of Bravery
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Measure of Bravery

By Tobi Lutke (Founder, Shopify)

November 30, 2022

The best thing founders can do is subtraction. It’s much, much, much easier to add things than it is to remove things. Adding things is a lot more expensive than...
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Atomic Habits
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Atomic Habits

By James Clear

August 29, 2022

Editor’s note:  This book affirms my own experience with good and bad habits over time.  The author’s great strength is in his step-by-step how-to approach.  He makes life-changing practices seem...
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The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer by Ryan Busse, The Atlantic
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The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer by Ryan Busse, The Atlantic

By Tim McCarthy

July 30, 2022

Editor’s Note:  Given the chance, America will take anything to an extreme.  When I in high school, 8 or 10 of my classmates would be absent on opening day of...
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The Business of Good
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The Business of Good

By Tim McCarthy

April 30, 2022

An owner/CEO recently asked me, “how do I start a foundation, so that I can give back?” My response was, “why not imbed giving into your business model?” While starting...
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The Office “Michael, Jim, Dwight” sales training scene
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The Office “Michael, Jim, Dwight” sales training scene

By Tim McCarthy

March 31, 2022

Editor’s note: I did not see this scene when the show was running but ran into it the other day. Having been through mock sales training many times, I could...
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Here We Go Again by Seth Godin

By Tim McCarthy

January 31, 2022

Editor’s note:  One of my favorite books was Donald Miller’s “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years”.  The book is an entertaining tale of how Miller learned to live a...
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