http://www.grahamdbrown.com Business Author of Uncommon Sense Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:57:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour of peace - Andre Gide I've riffed already about Common Sense and truth. Common Sense can dominate truth through hero worship by elevating the values of our heros to ... http://www.grahamdbrown.com/index.php/war-and-common-sense-good-bedfellows/ Ask any hollywood actor about the role they'd next like to be cast in and its inevitably the bad guy. The reason? "It's more fun". The reason why we admire the guy we're often supposed to hate is that he's consistent to his values, whatever they are. Watch any budding singer nervously ... http://www.grahamdbrown.com/index.php/uncommon-sense-of-the-truth-or-why-do-people-like-the-bad-guy/ I'm a big fan of Seth Godin, you probably know already (I've already blogged down the line about The Dip). I borrowed one of his riffs earlier when I blogged about Sliced Bread and why we need to challenge the received wisdom. Godin was the first author to switch me ... http://www.grahamdbrown.com/index.php/uncommon-sense-is-meatballs/ Technorati Tags: uncommon sense, common sense, jack kornfield, a path with a heart, ts eliot, sipadan, graham brown, marketing http://www.grahamdbrown.com/index.php/graham-brown-on-uncommon-sense/ Busy - a modern diseaseBusy...it's a modern disease. Yet, common sense holds that busy people are by definition successful people. How we boast about our "busy-ness". Got to dash... You don't get much busier than the sprawling metropolis of Tokyo where I lived for several years in the post-bubble 90s. ... http://www.grahamdbrown.com/index.php/busy-a-modern-disease/