Don’t Set the Bar Too Low | Mark Miller

Don’t Set the Bar Too Low | Mark Miller

I want to lead a great team – don’t you? I want to work on big ideas that will have a big impact. I want to invest my leadership energy in people and projects that matter. I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this way. So where do we begin? We have to start where...
Different is Good

Different is Good

Mackinac Island fudge.  Cherry cordial.  Moose tracks. My favorite three flavors of ice cream. Why do I like them? Well, they all have chocolate in them, so that must be important to me. They all have bits of something to add texture, so that must be important to me....

Getting the Conversation Started

Five months ago – in May of this year – Becky offered me the opportunity to work as a contractor for Weaving Influence. As an English major who had just quit my job as a pharmacy tech, I couldn’t believe my ears when she told me about the work I might be doing...
Give freely and generously

Give freely and generously

Hoarding is a serious issue. I have been helping a friend confront this head on.  She’s not as far gone as the people you see on TV, but she’s on her way.  She’s my age with two kids and a husband and a house that is becoming less and less useable. ...

The Reluctant Twitterer

I like to think of myself as an early adopter. As a member of the last generation to suffer the miseries of erasing carbon copies on a typewriter, balancing a checkbook by hand, and lying awake half the night trying to remember the name of an actor or musician, I was...