Nicholas Bate

Meanwhile In Paris, Things Looked Promising When He Got Room 101

The Seven Greatest Barriers To Your Greatest Work

(1)Worrying about what other people think (2)The distraction of trivia and melodrama (3)The desire for perfection (4)Simply not being bold enough (5)Not having a pen (6)Believing things should be fair (7)Copying rather than innovating To be continued and expanded...

January 2012 Redux Twenty

1. Carnage at Kodak
2. Strategies For Success: The Director's Cut Crib Sheet
3. Be Bold 101 is launched
4. Inspired by Starbucks: History is a Texture
5. 50 Ways To Make Life Easier
6. 100 Word Story
7. What If?
8. Tough Times require Extra Effort
9. Notice Seven
10. Tips From An Artist
11. Re 7
12. Behind Closed Doors
13. Slow Down Saturday
14. Paradoxes Seven
15. Immersion plus Kurt's amazing posters
16. Stop Seven
17. Back To Work at Totally, Totally Global Inc.
18. You Don't Need 7
19. The Dark Side Of IF
20. How's The Detox?

Mmmm

Writers Reveal

Truth vs. The Lie

You Too Can Draw

a cute fox.

Somewhere in Paris

Seven Questions For

Today's off-site: (1) but what if we did? (2) what if it isn't that their products are better; it's simply that their people sell better? (3) where exactly are we different compared to our competitors? (4) what do we learn from Kodak? (5) what are we going to do differently as a result of this meeting? (6) Do we really understand the implications of the Boston Consulting Matrix? (7) what's the question none of us are willing to ask because it is simply too hard to answer?

StrategiesForSuccess: ThirtyEight: AreYouKidding?

So write down what's stopping you. Everything. The whole lot. All the stuff. Now say to yourself in a loud voice-no louder than that-ARE YOU KIDDING? Is that all that's stopping you?

Absolutely. You can overcome every damn thing on that list.

And You Thought They Were Just Stacks..

"He ignored the elevator and walked up the steps.  He wanted to taste the transition.  Halfway up it hit him.  The biographies and histories and reference stacks.  The second floor was better.  If it was beef it would be the 28-day stuff, right?  Aged perfectly.  These were the good smells.  Shelves and shelves of the stuff, set in Baskerville and Garamond.  Times Roman.  Shit."

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