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How to Be Extraordinary

Posted in: Georgetown, leadership, risk, sacred, success, Values | February 25, 2012 at 8:30 am , by Dave Kaiser

A famous commercial from the 90s began with the words “When I grow up, I want to file all day…” It reminded us that kids do not dream small dreams, they dream of being princesses, rock stars, astronauts. Most of...

Productivity in the Age of Email

Posted in: email, Georgetown, leadership, media, social media, success, Time Management | February 24, 2012 at 9:36 am , by Dave Kaiser

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This is a webinar I did for Georgetown University Alumni Career Services back in August of last year, about how to stay productive despite email and the other distractions that accompany post-modern knowledge work. Presented to Georgetown University: Alumni Career...

All About Heroes

Posted in: celebration, emotion, leadership, risk, sacred, success, Values | February 23, 2012 at 10:06 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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I curated a series on Men and Heroism at the Good Men Project blog this week. You can find the link to it here. Some are about heroes that are truly extraordinary, some are about ordinary men and women doing...

Sonic Boom

Posted in: change, conflict, emotion, leadership, risk, sacred, success | February 19, 2012 at 9:57 am , by Dave Kaiser

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Around World War II, planes started getting faster. Shortly after, we started building planes that could fly close to the speed of sound. As planes would go faster, though, the noise would increase, and a lot of pilots and engineers...

Why I like Social Media

Posted in: emotion, productivity, social media, success | February 17, 2012 at 4:08 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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I finally get why I like it…it helps our hearts and minds work to scale. I read somewhere that based on the size of our brains, relative to other primates, we would thrive in a group of 150 – 200...

I’m going to SxSW

Posted in: conference, leadership, productivity, success | February 10, 2012 at 8:55 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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I will be at South by SouthWest Interactive this year, as part of their new Mentor sessions. I will be providing mentoring (obvious, right?) and guidance to interested individuals. I look forward to seeing you there, find me via Twitter,...

Hiring is Up, Unemployment is Down

Posted in: uncategorized | February 3, 2012 at 3:25 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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I’m excited by this. I think we are finally starting to move past the Great Recession...

Exciting News, My First Book is Published!

Posted in: celebration, emotion, leadership, risk, sacred, style, success | January 21, 2012 at 8:55 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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It’s a workbook, entitled “60 Days to Greater Confidence.” I actually wrote it about three years ago, and decided on a whim to try a Print-On-Demand publisher. So….it’s now available at CreateSpace (Click HERE) and will soon be up at...

Matthew Bishop meets Crash Davis

Posted in: change, job, leadership, productivity, Promotion, risk, success, Time Management, Values | January 3, 2012 at 10:36 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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In the midst of a jobless recession, many companies are having a hard time finding talented employees, according to this story by Matthew Bishop in the Economist. How can this possibly be so? Once upon a time, big companies were...

Thursday Thanks ManKind Project

Posted in: emotion, risk, sacred, thanks, Values | December 30, 2011 at 8:07 am , by Dave Kaiser

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OK, I am going to reboot the Thursday Thanks category here at the DarkMatter blog. Today I want to thank the Mankind Project (Also known as New Warriors). I went to an MKP weekend here in Chicago back in ’04,...

BHAG – Big Hairy Audacious Goal

Posted in: Brand, emotion, Humor, leadership, Luck, marketing, risk, sacred, success, Time Management, uncategorized | December 23, 2011 at 11:58 pm , by Dave Kaiser

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So, I was working with my coach, Jean-Pierre LeBlanc, recently, and we began to talk about the Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) for my coaching. Many great human endeavors started with somethign that had seemed crazy. Kennedy proposed putting a...

What NOT to do to get more done

Posted in: email, leadership, New Year's Resolutions, productivity, risk, success, Time Management | December 23, 2011 at 7:21 am , by Dave Kaiser

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I have a new article up at LifeHack. The idea is, you’re always hearing about more things you need to do to be productive, this article is about what you can stop doing to get more done. Read it HERE,...

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How to Be Extraordinary

All About Heroes

Sonic Boom

I’m going to SxSW

Hiring is Up, Unemployment is Down

Exciting News, My First Book is Published!

Matthew Bishop meets Crash Davis

Thursday Thanks ManKind Project

BHAG – Big Hairy Audacious Goal

What NOT to do to get more done

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