Why Your Business Needs to Embrace Social Media

As you'll see in the interview, I'll have to give my wife credit for letting me know about how great a speaker Scott is.



Scott is a cool guy, and so the fun part was trying to figure out what I needed to wear.  I'm sure my boss wanted me to wear a nice shirt with a collar, but I knew Scott was going to be wearing some cool alternative type shirt, so what you see is what I thought might bridge the gap between the two.

Does Love Work In Business?

Here's my interview with Tim Sanders.  Make sure to watch the interview, and below I'll give you the 'behind the scenes' take.



If you couldn't tell, Tim has all kinds of energy.  You'll notice I'm fumbling over my words (even more than usual) at the beginning because seconds before, Tim had totally thrown me off by doing a big clap with his hands, right in front of my face, like they do in movies with "ACTION!" to start a scene.  I thought it was really funny and we should leave it in, but unfortunately there was something wrong with the shot, and we had to restart.  (ARGH!) Hopefully we can do an interview bloopers reel at some point, 'cuz that funny.

How Do You Turn Problems Into Solutions?

How do you turn problems into solutions?
What are the key elements of innovative communication?
How do you get a perfectionist to do a highly creative white board video in just one take?

I recently got to sit down with innovation guru Michael McMillan and learn just that:

What Is Your Crazy Day Reset Button?

When your day is going crazy, and there's so much going on, everyone is demanding something of you, and you're frustrated to no end, do you have a reset button?

I do.  Three or four of them, more accurately.  On my computer at work, I've got

How To Become A Category Of One (Interview with Joe Calloway)

The Mysterious Piano Door/When Haiti Became Real

My friend Scott The Playwright says there is a moment in every play when it must become real, or the entire message is lost.  I used to help with fund-raising for his theater company, Oracle Productions, and Scott was adamant we needed the extra money to get real metal swords.  He would say that when the hero and the villain fight, if the swords were to make some plastic "whack" sound, the play would continue to be fake to the audience and it would never have the impact intended.  But when those swords hit with an iron clash, something inside the audience says, "Those are real swords! Someone really could get hurt!"  They become drawn in, they buy in, they believe, and