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Startup Sales When life or death of your startup happens knee to knee with the customer. It is Monday morning. Or Sunday Morning. It’s hard to tell. All the days bleed into one another. A blur of cascading urgent priorities and unforeseen challenges whipsawing your attention back and forth, up and down. Products that stubbornly …
Work “Work is a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread” The great socialist Studs Terkel discovered this and each of us discovers it every day. What is work? It is a basic human need. It is a thing that can totally consume us. It is a thing that when we are deprived …
Creating an effective personal brand Take the time and figure out who you want the world to see. www.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-russell/0/726/119/ I’ve been working with my LinkedIn network over the last few months. I was an early adopter when LinkedIn first came out. In the last year I have grown my direct professional network to over 4,000 …
What is cortisone? The Wonder drug… The doctor injected cortisone into my heel to reduce the swelling in my plantar Fasciitis. This begs the question, “What is Cortisone?” I’m glad you asked. Cortisone is a hormone. It is one of the main hormones produced by your adrenal gland. In normal human operations cortisone is released …
Hot, Hot, Hot. Anatomy of the hot long run. I ran 20 miles in the full heat of a New England summer day last weekend. It was not my intention to do so but circumstances led to this event and I thought I’d walk you through it that you might profit from my folly. I …
