Category Archive: Soul Power

Trust in Luck

“If you ever have to choose
between hard work and luck:
choose luck.
But remember…
Luck doesn’t like a schmo.”
- Joseph Rosenblatt

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How the Web Transforms Consumerism and What That Means to Organizations

The web has changed a lot of things about the way we consume media. It’s flipped our primary communications infrastructure from a one-way, to a two-way flow of information – and that change in the way we communicate is redefining who we are. Businesses and organizations of all types need to understand that their customers …

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Love Hurts – That’s a Good Thing

One day it dawned on me that my romantic relationships felt a bit like two hearts on a teeter-totter. Staying out on the edge was exciting and fun, but love at the center is more mellow and sweet – it’s deeper. It is the stuff of the soul and I can no longer really imagine a world without it.

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What American Idol Teaches Us About Customer Engagement

Sing Your Heart Out

You’re probably too cool to watch American Idol, right? I’m not. I think it’s a brilliant show that also has something to teach organizations about engaging their stakeholders. Contestants sing their hearts out every night and some of the performances are truly touching. Check out Jacob Lusk pouring his heart out in the video clip …

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If Companies are People, Where’s Their Soul?

Keep Your Eye on the Prize

The U.S. Constitution is the foundation of our political system, but to find its spirit, we must look to the Declaration of Independence. When our nation struggles with difficult questions, it is this document that serves as a North Star to keep us on course with our founding vision. One such question that we wrestle with today …

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Love and Power

All you need is...

In honor of Dr. King today: “Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable but necessary in order to implement the demands of love and justice. One of the greatest problems of history …

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Powerful Connections Touch the Soul

This is a talk I gave last night for Social Venture Partners Annual Meeting. It was a really nice event, full of interesting people, moving talks and inspiring conversations. In this video, I ask what is becoming an increasingly interesting question to me: Is it possible to have a soulful connection with an organization?

Keep Stretching…

Keep stretching, keep learning. Otherwise, “what you know” becomes “you know what”…

"I write. I’m a Writer."

Gideon Rosenblatt is now a writer. This is the post where he announces he’s left Groundwire to focus his time on writing at Alchemy of Change.

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