There are plenty of hooks around for you to get caught on. The boy Peter Pan knew this. Adulthood, responsibility, accountability, informed courage, these are traits of a mature individual, on the hook and ready to show up and perform. The modern conception of “adulting” represents the overall continuation of long-term, Read more…
Influential personalities and brands online are about to become even more influential as the years go by. And mediators, lawyers, and negotiators should take note. Influencer advertising is tricky to navigate, whether you are trying to partner with the peacebuilding neighborhood association with a vibrant Facebook community or the pop Read more…
Being the last person standing is an underrated tactic in the world of online content creation. But for the peace builder looking to create a subscription model for content, this may be the best strategy possible. Three things are working in the peace builder’s favor: the speed of the Internet Read more…
Imagine if engagement with customers, clients, and others could be measured as a trackable KPI of success in your organization? Imagine if you actually engineered your organization at all levels to compete not in a race to the bottom on price, product, or service, but instead if you engineered (through Read more…
In financial markets, in gambling, and even in entrepreneurship, there are two skills that are critical for success: making small bets consistently through developing a model (buying) and breaking an old model (selling), and building an anti-fragile machine that can withstand the shock of either of those small bets failing. Read more…
Three thoughts that may (or may not) intersect with each other: Thought #1: There’s a lot of high profile, persistent, whining going on in the space of web publishing, content creation, and even in the scrappy world of podcasting. This phenomenon of whining is also extending into commentary around entrepreneurship Read more…
It’s hard to imagine a world without stories and storytelling; after all, human beings are narrative animals. And where peace builders are concerned, it’s even harder to imagine a world without conflict. Conflict is a process of change driven by stories. Stories that, when repeated often enough—and with enough veracity—become Read more…
There are commodities, massive amounts of resources, products, and even ideas, that consumers use and discard at mass. Commodities can also be traded for money and generate outsized revenues because they are so valuable to consumers and can be differentiated across so many secondary and tertiary products in the market. Read more…
The sales process for a peace builder in the open market is wrapped up with impressions, ideas, concepts, and intuition that the peacebuilder has in their head about every sales film, sales call, and selling situation they’ve ever been involved with. But, in order to be successful in the open Read more…
Resonance is a term from physics that describes what happens when an object’s natural vibration frequency responds to an external stimulus of the same frequency. Resonance occurs in nature when an object vibrates without you even touching it. Resonance happens when people fall in love with each other; and, resonance Read more…