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It’s easy to ask a question and harder to ask for money. We should do both to truly test our ideas.

Great artists are not bound by a single style or media. Instead, their life’s work is grouped into periods, like Picasso’s Blue Period or Bowie’s “Berlin Era.” The work we do is art. Like great artists, we,...

It’s not enough to show up online. A business needs to be professional online. Here’s how (in seven easy steps). (If you want to skip the post, you can download the worksheet here.)

2016 is the year of professionalism. Every year, I choose one word that is the summation of all of my goals. Even if I forget my specific goals, this one word keeps me on track. Here’s...

My two year old daughter remembers everything. Everything that ever happened to her and everything that was ever said to her. She should. She only has two years of events to remember. For the rest of us, we occasionally need...

If our business and community can inspire others to act, we create an impact greater than any work we can do ourselves. In other words: it's not what we do, it's who we inspire. Your business and community have the potential to change the world. It requires action and vision, but by crowdsourcing this work, it might just happen.

The Information Age Reverses the Industrial Age Sleeping next to a snoring dog ensures better sleep. So says evolutionary biologists who argue that for millennia, snoring dogs meant safety. If your dog was not worried,...

A vibrant community needs a “town square,” the place where ideas are shared and serendipity is welcomed. In many communities, 1 Million Cups is now that town square. Learn how to get started and lessons learned from over a year of running 1 Million Cups events in a rural community.

This month, my home of Brookings, S.D. was chosen as one of 25 startup communities to win the Startup in a Day competition. Learn how to make your community stand out.

Governance could change if we shifted from valuing scarcity towards valuing networks. We have the potential to make this shift in our work and communities with abundance governance.