Unless you truly want to make something happen, the odds are nothing will. Without that desire, nothing else matters…or occurs. Your life will be filled in other ways. So, the starting point when you are faced with uncertainty—and we could be talking about what should I be doing at the office or with the rest [...] Read more »
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Hudson Taylor Quote
I read your excellent book over the Christmas break. Thank you. It provided language and insight that I think will provide pivotal for my organization and personal leadership. I wanted to offer a quote that I have heard, and leaned into, many times. I believe it speaks to the CREAction process. The quote is from [...] Read more »
Occupy Wall Street as an Example of CreAction
This is not my personal story, other than I have been somewhat inspired by what is happening with Occupy Wall Street and see it as an example of CreAction. A few dozen people decided they wanted to protest and tried to camp out in front of the NYSE on September 17th. Hardly anyone noticed. But [...] Read more »
Sabi Sushi – The Restaurant Without a Restaurant
Dear ATE, I’m a member of the Sabi Sushi team, a finalist at this year’s Mass Challenge. Since the accelerator program, the company has made a huge pivot, centered around action, and I wanted to share our story with you. When I was watching the video of your presentation, and started reading your book “Action Trumps Everything”, it seemed [...] Read more »
JobTacToe – A Story of CreAction – Part 5
A random installment in the JobTacToe tale… Our premise for JobTacToe was predicated on Michael’s mailing list of 65,000 job seekers. We got such a positive initial response from them that we created the project. What we didn’t think through (and is blindingly obvious in hindsight) is that a mailing list of job seekers becomes [...] Read more »
And the subtitle is…you decide
We are big believers in taking advantage of our friends’ expertise. So, we need your help, once again. The folks at Harvard Business Review Press are eager to design the cover of our book and to do that, we need to (finally) decide on the subtitle. The title is locked. It will be Just Start. [...] Read more »
Titles, sub-titles and you
“But why are you changing the title?” We got that question in several difference forms, after our last post saying we were looking for a new sub-title for the updated version of our book. The short answer is our publisher, Harvard Business Review Press (nee Harvard Business School Press) wants to make it clear to the [...] Read more »
Your chance to play editor
We need your help. We are working on a completely revised version of our book that will be published by Harvard Business Review Press. We have a title we like–Just Start–but we are struggling with the subtitle. The following will give you an idea of the things we are thinking of: Mastering Uncertainty and Creating [...] Read more »
We’ll be right back
As some of you know, we have been working diligently–I would have said like a dog, but have ever actually seen a dog work; mine sleeps a lot–to create a radically new version of our book Action Trumps Everything. (It will be published by Harvard Business Review Press.) All this work, unfortunately, has taken time away [...] Read more »
Acceptable loss (nee affordable loss.) Please vote early (and often.)
We need your help. As we said from the beginning of both the book (Action Trumps Everything) and the blog, are very much a work in progress. Here’s today’s case in point. We have talked at length about how much you should put at risk in starting a new venture and, up until now (not [...] Read more »