I read a lot of things last week from a few choice bloggers who started positing that the “new” stance on failure was wrong.  The newer stance on failure is that it’s a good thing.  That not being afraid to fail is valuable because it forces you to take risks.  Those that don’t take risks [...]

When we are adolescents, we often spend our time trying to act like everyone else and be part of the crowd.
We spend a lot of time thinking “How can I be like those people?”
Then as we get older, we often find more confidence and become happy with who we are and what we’ve become.
In fact, [...]

It’s easy today to focus on the millions of millions of blogs and the unending Twitter streams and email newsletters and industry insiders and…and…
I don’t want people to stop reading those things, because they offer a lot of entertainment, insight and news.  But I REALLY don’t want people to stop reading classical literature and expanding their [...]

…when they think it’s the truth.
There are a select few who would do that when they know it isn’t.  There are more who would do it when they aren’t sure but want to be right.  Then there are those who wouldn’t take the chance.
Marketers are all of these.
Which kind are you?  Chances are that it [...]

It’s always worthwhile to consider what you want to learn.  There are certain ways to learn all of these things.  The typical paths are defined educations through a university or vocational school.  I’ve been through a few schools now and I can say that they are very good at churning out the same type of [...]

The last few weeks I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few weeks learning about Wall Street and Investment Banking. I’m in the midst of an ethnography book on Wall Street (which I’ll review whenever I finish) and have an ethics class that has had a few discussions turned to capital investment.  What’s [...]

This is the 500th post of Redmarketer.  That’s not bad in my opinion.  It took a little under 20 months to get here and I’ve learned a lot about the web and marketing since then.  But there is still so much more to learn about.  I think about SEO and how to improve my ranking [...]

One idea can change the entire world.  Sure, it’s only one world, but it’s still a pretty big deal for most of us.
Almost every book I read, I try to reorganize afterward to represent one big idea.  For Good to Great, it was “Get the right people on the bus and then decide where to [...]

As I watched to snow fall in a work meeting today, it struck me how my teaching the high school students of North Minneapolis has very much turned low the opacity of distance between me and they.  In short, I’m showing my age…and I am by no means that old, though sometimes it feels that [...]

Maybe you’ve heard the joke about two people in the woods.  They are walking along, and all of a sudden they hear something behind them.  They turn to see a vicious bear running toward them in the distance.  One of them immediately bends down to tie his shoes.
The second of the two yells at him, [...]