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From blog posts to book reviews and recommendations – and everything in between – Lodestone offers you free resources to educate, motivate and inspire you.
We are avid consumers of great ideas. On this page, we have curated the best classic and contemporary thinking into these categories – people, operations, leadership, business tips, videos and library/books review.
The Walls on the Path of Execution
I keep running headlong into walls. They stop me cold. My face is marred with the scars from years of journeying into, and then over, the walls that keep me from executing on the right and best endeavors. These walls keep me from getting good things done. I have...
Podcast Episode 055: How To Do Great Work, Paul Graham
Episode 055 - Mark reads an excerpt from the essay "How to do great work" by Paul Graham This except talks about the value of experience. 0.00 Intro 1:00 Reference to interview of Jared Kushner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_MeKSnyAo...
Stuck in the Middle
Usually when I start some great new initiative, it takes off with a bang, only to die in the middle. Or, perhaps its demise comes closer to the beginning than I care to admit. Based on the essay "The Middle is Where it Dies" - Read the...
The Tyranny Of The Present
The way I feel at present is not the way it really is or the way it will be. The facts of my present — how something feels, my emotional state, the weather, the smaller story of the pressures and distractions of the moment — are pressing on me. But the noise...
It’s Time To Get Unstuck!
Based on the essay "Stuck" by Mark Whitmore. "Soar- to fly above the ground, like an eagle, gliding over the countryside with only the sound of the wind blowing by. No distractions, no minutia, no noise. It’s quiet up here. Gliding on...
The Truth is… (Part 2)
Sometimes facts don’t line up with the truth. This may sound like a word game, but bear with me. What I mean is this: How a person feels at a given moment is a fact. The person — be it an employee, shareholder, your...
The Truth is…
Sometimes facts don’t line up with the truth. This may sound like a word game, but bear with me. What I mean is this: How a person feels at a given moment is a fact. The person — be it an employee, shareholder, your child or your spouse — indeed feels a...
Adaptability Is A Two-Edged Sword
Adaptability is a two-edged sword. On the one edge, the good edge, we use the ability to adapt to adjust to the hard things we need to do. We can, and do, get used to the new normal of a more difficult, yet more...
Stuck
Soar- to fly above the ground, like an eagle, gliding over the countryside with only the sound of the wind blowing by. No distractions, no minutia, no noise. It's quiet up here. Gliding on thermals with no effort- wings out, feeling the lift. There is not much that...
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