Why defining your fears might be more important than defining your goals—a Stoic approach to overcoming paralysis and taking action Fear-setting helps us confront and overcome the psychological barriers that prevent meaningful action In his thought-provoking TED Talk, Tim Ferriss asks a question that challenges conventional wisdom about success and achievement: Could defining your fears be more important than defining your goals? As someone who's recently begun reading his book The 4-Hour Workweek, I find...
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Failure: The Secret to Success

How embracing failure drives innovation and breakthrough success There's something profoundly counterintuitive about celebrating failure. Our educational systems, career paths, and social norms often train us to avoid mistakes at all costs. Yet some of the world's most innovative organizations and individuals take a radically different approach—they view failure not as something to be feared, but as an essential component of breakthrough success. The video above offers fascinating insights into Honda's racing philosophy, where failure...
Target Corporate Headquarters Tour
Stromberg Consulting Presentation Target and Best Buy are using Stromberg Consulting to help with their branding strategy Brand + Reputation + Perception = Today's Reality Employees, customers, and stakeholders are all seeking much more transparency in the relationships that they have with companies. Branding Good brand = promise Great brand = promise kept From the moment we are born we are all in networks. Some of us even find love through our networks. Stories travel...
Inspirational One Armed Basketball Player
Prospect Provides Inspiration With What He Doesn't Have By ADAM HIMMELSBACH FORK UNION, Va. — Kelli Whitescarver did not see traffic bottle up on Interstate 95 until it was too late. She lost control of her black Ford Explorer, which smashed a guardrail, flipped onto the driver's side and dragged her left arm on the pavement. Whitescarver, 21, had been on her way home to Richmond on Nov. 2 after visiting her sister in North...
If You Are Not Happy Now, You Never Will Be
Reflections on unconditional happiness and detachment "Perhaps true happiness is something different from this clinging and pushing away. Perhaps true happiness is an internal thing." But this running toward and running away; can it ever provide us with lasting happiness? We're happy with our kids, but the little rascals tend to grow up, and then reject everything we have ever taught them. As they go their own way. Perhaps true happiness is something different from...
The World is Flat
The World is Flat Friedman's 10 Forces That Flattened the World I am hearing some good things about Friedman's book and hope to some day get a chance to read it. Wikipedia has a summary of the ten "flatteners" that Friedman sees as leveling the global playing field: Join the Discussion Which of Friedman's "flatteners" do you think has had the most impact on our global economy? Have you observed these forces changing your industry?




