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Why I’ll Never Retire

by Tim Berry on November 2, 2009

in Baby Boomer, True Stories, Work Life Balance

Ugh, baby boomers, retirement, selling the business … ouch. Strikes me like “lions, tigers, and bears,” in the Wizard of Oz. Scary.
I’m 61. It was my choice to change my job more than two years ago, so that now instead of managing my company with 45 employees I’m writing, speaking, blogging, and teaching. And I [...]

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I didn’t want to add another Ted Kennedy tribute to the world today, but Dan Levine (schoolmarketer in twitter) tipped me off to Ted Kennedy, Low Potential Leader by Sarah Green on a Harvard Business School blog; and I couldn’t resist passing it on. Especially this last paragraph:
So for me, today, Ted Kennedy’s life is [...]

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Ah yes, the good old days. How quickly time passes. My youngest graduated from college last weekend. She can barely remember life before cellphones, and can’t remember life before personal computers or VCRs, because both of those were born before she was.
A graduation is a milestone event, and milestone events generate this kind of thinking. [...]

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True confession: I love writing. I love short sentences, strong words, making myself understood.
I think most, if not all, good bloggers like writing. Video people do vlogs and YouTube, poets go to Twitter (say, what?), but bloggers are writers. Almost all of my favorite blogs — I’ve got the blogroll on this blog, rightmost column, [...]

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A nice person almost apologized to me for not having her business on Facebook. I said: “but why?”
Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and all the rest of that “social media stuff” may or may not be good business. But not just for its own sake. It has to be part of a strategy.
Otherwise, it may or may [...]

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Benjamin Floyd of Read Click Done asked me after yesterday’s post: “how do you do it?” Two books, 1400 or so posts, 1300 or so tweets in the last two years. “Where do you find the time.”
Fair question. Reminds me of Bob Sutton’s Really, I Write it Myself. So do I. Bob thanks his editors, [...]

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Two years ago this month I started blogging. Just a couple weeks after naming Sabrina Parsons CEO of Palo Alto Software. I remained president, but switched my job to blogging, writing, speaking, and teaching. I guess I should have changed my title to CBO, for chief blogging officer.
I didn’t understand at first …
“I’m a business [...]

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I love twitter. What blogging is to email, Twitter is to instant messaging (IM) … and then some. You can follow me on Twitter as Timberry. I’m like a fish with a shiny new thing. And, with due respect to the MSNBC line (if you don’t get it, you’re too old) — I’m 61. But [...]

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Lost Generation, Great Short Video

by Tim Berry on March 19, 2009

in Baby Boomer, Overheard

My thanks to Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen for posting about this brilliant two-minute video, from youtube, that speaks for itself. It has a real twist to it.

If by any chance you don’t see that here, you can click this link to go to the original on youtube. 

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A Planner’s 3 Rules on Resolutions

by Tim Berry on December 31, 2008

in Baby Boomer, Reflections

In 30-some years of professional business planning, I’ve developed a few theories on what works, and what doesn’t, when it comes to trying to get something done. Usually I’m talking about business planning, and how to make plans become actions,…

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