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Hey there, folk. I’d like to start off wishing everyone out there a Happy Easter. All of you may not celebrate Easter, but I do, so I thought I should give a shout out to the Man Upstairs during the holiday celebrating His son’s resurrection…I mean, I am the one controlling the content on this joint, right? He’s watched over me as I’ve made my journey through life and I know that I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for Him…I can’t say ‘thank you’ enough for that gift.

Now, I bet some of you are… Read the rest

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I know that many of you are about to make the journey into business school and I wanted to lead you to a tool that might help you along that path. I can’t claim credit for it, but I wish I’d had the forethought to come up with it back in the day. Instead, the credit for it goes to my man Jullien who is seriously killin’ it right now in terms giving people actionable tools and advice to help them reach their potential.

The tool is an MBA Action Plan… Read the rest that he developed to help soon-to-be MBA students to

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What’s up, y’all. I’m posting a quick entry to spread the word about the Stanford GSB Black Business Student Association Conference that will take place in Palo Alto on April 25-27, 2008.

Traditionally, it is a Saturday afternoon event, but, since this is the 25th anniversary of the event, the current BBSA kids have made plans to do it up HUGE this time around with stuff starting on Friday and continuing to Sunday. I’m really looking forward to seeing how it all goes down and thought that some of you who might be interested too.

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What’s up, folks. By now, you’ve probably seen all of the footage of downtown ATL after the tornado came through last night and I’m still in shock. I just happened to be on the way to dinner with a friend right after the storm hit and we noticed that an entire power grid went out down the street from my house. Then, we saw that the traffic on the highway was at a standstill and were still clue about what was going on. That was until we saw all kind of debris right in the middle of the highway…I’m talking… Read the rest

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What’s good, folk. Just when I said that I was going to start writing more often, things started getting busier at work and I found myself not writing stuff that wasn’t work-related for a while. Well, I’m sitting on a plane right now, which gives me time to plug away at the keyboard and this seems like as good a time as any to respond to a reader email…

When I read the message below, I couldn’t help but grin because he’s vibin’ with me on three factors that have made up the foundation of who I am over the… Read the rest

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I was reading through my man Jullien’s blog earlier this morning and saw a couple of entries that were like ‘whoa!’, so I wanted to share them:

The 8 P’s of Purpose
–He lays out an 8-question framework for helping people to determine overall their life purpose

Jay-Z quotes for personal growth… Read the rest
–Y’all know I’m a Jay-Z fan, so this one jumped out at me. Jullien took a bunch of Jay-Z quotes and drew out some life lessons from them…pretty dope concept.

If you haven’t checked out his site yet, I’ve got to let you know that he’s

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Some of you might have noticed some changes to the site over the last couple of weeks, including a new layout and some new widgets on the right-hand side of the screen. I finally switched over to the new version of Blogger and I like the portal-like functionality that they added in. Another addition is that I’ve added a tag-cloud wizard to make it easier for people to find entries based on tags. A reader suggested that I do that a while back and I laughed it off because I thought it would take too long to do, but my… Read the rest

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