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Strategies and ideas to help you:

  • Inspire your tribe to action
  • Persuade investors and philanthropists to invest in your project
  • Influence people to make better decisions
  • Speak confidently in public
  • Develop sustainable business strategies

What does Being Iconic mean? Being Iconic is NOT a glorification of the individual, of the corporate brand, or of pop culture. Being Iconic IS about the individual and her role in community and society; of the local, sustainable, small-business brand; and of niches, subcultures, and tribes. The 3 Intelligences Being Iconic is about uniting [...]

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Marketing, at its essence, is a simple thing -  a company creates unique value by designing products and services that meet the needs of customers in a growing market. And while larger companies can afford a full-front media blitz, involving television, print, and internet advertising campaigns, most entrepreneurs will opt for a stealthier approach. Here [...]

I’m in Santa Cruz tomorrow working with a startup social democracy venture who uses game incentives and a unique platform to enroll citizens in creating solutions to social problems.  Yes! We have four hours tomorrow to take their raw vision – including a first-pass business plan, investor slide deck, and a number of new ideas [...]

The results of about 20 Social Business Ninjas brainstorming on topics for 2012:  damn we’re gonna be have it together! Let me know if you’d like to speak on one of these topics or recommend an expert on the subject. Can’t wait to share my knowledge and learn from all of you!   SEO Social [...]

Social Business Ninjas Unite! This week I am launching a new Meetup group in the East Bay (Berkeley): The Social Business Ninjas. The group will meet on a monthly basis in different locations in the East Bay to discuss Social Business and … being a Ninja. What does this mean? Here’s the Big Idea: 1) [...]

On Tuesday night, SF-CAPS (San Francisco Consultants, Coaches, Authors & Public Speakers) resumed its monthly Meetup series. CAPS’ purpose is to provide cutting edge business skills to our tribe of activated, bootstrapped, entrepreneurial members.  It used to be run by Jeff & Kane, who are now running their motivational speaking business out of Sydney, Australia. [...]

Leaders Need Art AND Science

  Jonah Lehrher, the man who makes neuroscience accessible, wrote a great thought-piece in SEED magazine on the interplay between Science and Art.  He concluded:   “If we want to get an answer to our deepest questions—the questions of who we are and what everything is—we will need to draw from both science and art, so that [...]

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How to be Charismatic

What does it mean to be more charismatic? Most people think of charisma as a born trait – you’ve either got it or you don’t.  The greek origin of the word is literally “gift from grace.” And certainly, some people are born with an innate quality that attracts others. I’m here to tell you that [...]

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What Does *Leadership* Mean in 2012?

One of my personal goals for 2012 is to co-create a new definition of *leadership* for the 21st century.  (A friend recently commented that any great goal should have an element of the audacious, and apparently I agree).  Growing up we were taught that leadership was an innate trait that was hard to define, much [...]

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What’s my “IdeaVirus”?

I’ve been re-reading Seth Godin’s Unleashing the Ideavirus recently, which has been helpful as I launch this blog.  The concept behind the Ideavirus is that we’ve evolved from an economy based on ‘food production’ to ‘industrial production’ to ‘idea creation’.  It’s an old (7 years old is old in idea-land!) classic and it is inspiring [...]

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