Okay Hotshot, Now What? The Future of BTT

Okay Hotshot What's Next? The Future of BTT - Brass Tack Thinking

I took a bit of an online sabbatical last week. It was good. Needed, even. Nothing exploded. No one died. I did of course answer client emails and take the necessary phone calls to keep the work world humming along, but I took a bit of a break from other stuff to contemplate a few [...]

I Resolve Nothing. For Now.

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I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions anymore. To me, they’re not made for any reason other than the fact that the calendar year is ending, which frankly is a crappy reason to promise yourself anything. When I make a promise to do something, context is everything. So if it just so happens that I screw [...]

Time to Kill the Elephants

elephant in the room

I’m going to guess you’re pretty familiar with the elephants in your room. Sure, you don’t talk about them. You may have even convinced yourself they aren’t really there. But you know them. Well. They’ve got you backed against a wall, hip-deep in shit. So yeah, those elephants. Time to kill ‘em. Okay, fine, move them [...]

Change? It’s in the wind.

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Change is a funny thing. It’s a constant state — and so is our fight against it. We’re wired to fight change. And yet, the more we fight — the more we resist — the more painful change can be. (Stress, after all, comes from wishing things to be other than they are….) Change is a [...]

Getting Comfortable with Quiet…and Fear.

Brass Tack Thinking - On Fearlessness

Part of the journey that I’m on right now involves exploring and solidifying ideas I have around what’s really next in business. Not just the next shiny app, but the concepts and ideas that are going to be the watermarks of this seismic shift in the way we communicate and work. I need to drive my [...]

The Brass Tacks Of Resolutions

Change is a noun. It’s also a verb. The first one we’re comfortable with, but it’s the nature of the second that typically gives us a hard time. This is the season for resolutions, when many people take the coming of the New Year as an opportunity to promise themselves change of some kind. To [...]