TOTD – Biz Is The Art Of
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Tag Archives: Hugh MacLeod
TOTD – Sleep
Thought of the Day
TOTD – Burden
“It nags, it controls your dreams. You feel the irrational pull. You know you must do it, even though everybody thinks you’re crazy. That is the burden.”
[Get Hugh]
The Only One
TOTD – Life Without Love
“This is really about ‘making-up’. When you are just at the edge of the ‘it’s too hard’ precipice, look down and think about life without love.
It’s easy to be cynical about love. But when loves leaves your life, you realize that everything is better with it. The Friendship, Partnership, Warmth, Connectedness, Support – it all makes life just a bit more worth living.
Don’t be cynical, don’t be flippant, try your heart out, you don’t have to settle – strong back, open heart – it’s worth it.”
The Global Microbrand Rant
This is 2005 talk — read it.
TOTD – Adventure to Adventure
“Wanting adventure, being able to have adventures, being able to see life as an adventure, is not luck. It’s a choice.
And the ones who fail to make that choice; invariably make something else instead: Excuses.”
TOTD – Inspire
“There’s many ways to measure success. But how often one feels inspired, I think, is about a good a metric as any. Inspiration is totally addictive. I can’t get enough of it. You?”
TOTD – At Least I Tried
Thought of the Day
Thought of the Day
One of the most essential talents a creative has to learn if she ever wants to be successful is, the capacity to “Kill Your Babies”. It’s hard at first, but you get used to it…
TOTD – In the Moment
TOTD – No Whining
This post is for my dad – who used to own a no whining hat. I wore it once to elementary school without his permission. It was a hit. When I returned home and got bitched at for taking his property — I pointed to the hat.
Happy Fathers Day Dad :)
Business Is
Human beings are primates. We’re social. Everything we do is related around socializing with others of our species.
Yet we’re always tempted to think otherwise. That our businesses are not what they actually are (social groups), but more like machines. Taylorism, Homo Economicus and all that…
This is why I always recommend people reading the work of my good friend, Mark Earls. Mark’s thesis is, simply, 1. That people are social animals, 2. That businesses are social groups, not machines, 3. That what holds these social groups (businesses) together is a collective sense of “purpose”, 3. A business without a strong “Purpose-Idea” is at a considerable disadvantage.
Which is why I made the drawing so that “Purpose” is at the very center of the design…
Thanks Hugh.