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SLOG Turns One: My Favorite Slog Posts

6/19/2013

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In honor of my SLOG's one-year anniversary, I decided to create a slide show featuring some of my favorite posts from the past year...

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Listed below are the links to my all-time favorite SLOG posts. These are my favorites because of the subjects and the amount of work that went into them...
  1. 7 Minutes of Terror: I'll Be Curious to See How This Goes...
  2. Best Band Ever: Led Zeppelin
  3. Blown Away Guy: Iconic Maxell Ad
  4. Charts, Cliffs & Cavemen
  5. Content Marketing: Do You Inspire or Pour Gas on the Fire?
  6. Don't Let Your Investment Experience Become A Horror Show
  7. The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty
  8. Infrastructure: Mega-trend of the 21st Century
  9. Let's Do Something About This: National Nutrition Month
  10. Self-Renewal: A Personal Tribute to John W. Gardner
  11. Take A Stand for Teachers
  12. You Matter! by Angela Maiers
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When Unconventional Wisdom Becomes Conventional

4/7/2013

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Any management consultant worth his/her salt has used the saying, "think out of the box" a time or two when speaking, working with clients, etc.

For some reason, this image (which I saw on Facebook today) made me wonder -- What happens when everyone adopts a certain perspective that was once considered "unconventional wisdom?"  Does it become conventional wisdom?

Don't get me wrong, I have used this saying myself along with countless others when trying to make a point. After reading the Discipline of Market Leaders, I began using the term "value proposition" the next day. After reading Paradigms: The Business of Discovering the Future, I adopted the term "paradigm shift." After reading Only the Paranoid Survive, I incorporated the term "inflection point" in all my presentations. I could go on and on...
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It occurs to me that most of us adopt sayings like this without taking the time to figure out (or question) what they really mean. For example, WHAT BOX ARE WE REFERRING TO? I am fully aware that "think outside the box" is a harmless suggestion to think creatively but to paraphrase my original question -- What happens when EVERYONE starts looking outside the box for inspiration???

With this in mind, I would like to offer an unconventional view of what now seems like a rather conventional dose of wisdom, which is this...
When everyone is looking outside the box for inspiration, maybe it's time to look INSIDE!
And, with all due respect to Mr. Chopra (whom I admire greatly) I say it depends on your box :-)
If you have a box of rocks, get rid of it.
If you have a box of wisdom, share it.
If you have a box of books, read them.
If you have a box of tools, fix something.
If you have a box of crayons, color something.
If you have a box of recipes, feed someone.
If you have a box of chocolates, eat some.
And, if you are lucky enough to have a box of love, be kind to someone.
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Do you think Tiffany's would really engrave it for us? I mean, you don't think they would feel it was beneath them or anything like that...
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Unconventional Wisdom

11/28/2012

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After six months, my Creative Works Project is now complete. As stated on the home page, my goal in building this website was to create an online repository of the work I have done over the past 20 years.

I have decided to call this website, Unconventional Wisdom, which was the name of my newsletter from 1994 - 2004. It was in that publication that many of the articles and models that appear on this site were originally published.
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The final piece of the puzzle was the Interviews section. Here you will find 46 interviews I conducted between June 2010 and October 2011. These in-depth conversations took place on an internet radio show I hosted called, Copernicus Radio. The mission of my show was to "feed both sides of the brain." My guests included thought leaders from inside and outside of the financial services industry. 

Each of my guests now has their own page on this site where you can listen to their interview in its entirety. You will also find a synopsis of the show, information about the guest and links to his/her website and social media pages where available.

Please feel free to share this link with anyone who might benefit from this website.

Thank you.
Steve Saenz
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    RAMBLE ON, the name of my SLOG was inspired by the Led Zeppelin song with the same name. It also describes the content, which reflects my very random observations about life, work and my endless pursuit of the sublime. See tag list below...

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