In 2009, Blackberry owned 50 percent of the smartphone market. By 2014, however, with the iPhone’s rise in popularity, that number tumbled to 1 percent. Part of Blackberry’s decline was founder Mike Lazaridis’s belief that the world would never want more from a mobile phone than to make calls and send and receive emails. Put […]
Words Into Works #041 | The Rule of Five
In 1993, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen had a goal: to get their book Chicken Soup for the Soul to the top of The New York Times bestseller’s list. They sought out the advice of 15 best-selling authors, but as helpful as their advice was, Canfield and Hansen felt overwhelmed with information. In his book […]
Words Into Works #052 | The Dip
We’ve all been there. You take on a fun, new endeavor—learning a language, building a business—and get good feedback from the people around you. You’re engaged and enjoying the fruits of your efforts. But then the Dip happens. The Dip, writes Seth Godin in the book of the same name, is a temporary setback that […]
Words Into Works 51 | Have To vs. Get To
James Clear is known by many as the New York Times bestselling author of Atomic Habits, a book that has sold more than 3 million copies. But what few people know is, before building his career as a writer, Clear trained in college baseball and, in particular, strength training. One day, Clear’s strength and conditioning coach, Mark Watts, […]
Words Into Works #050 | Bright Spots
In 1990, Jerry Sternin, the then US Country Director of Save the Children, traveled to Vietnam to fight malnutrition. The condition was at an all-time high, with one Vietnamese in three suffering from malnutrition and one in four facing starvation. [1] Sternin traveled to rural villages and learned from conversations with local groups of mothers […]
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