420 stories by "Michael Roderick"
This week's A.P.T. goes out to the team at Surprise Industries. You can hire them to surprise someone you know and love. Really! This is one of the coolest businesses I've run into, so I enc…
This week's retro wednesday post is about one of the many lessons I learned as a dishwasher. Check it out below. September 21, 2011 Lessons from dish washing: Get someone to unrack When I st…
Throughout your career you will be faced with many choices. Often, these choices will not be easy ones, but something to consider is the energy it takes to worry about the choice you make. H…
Many of us have heard of the jack of all trades who is the master of none. The idea is that this is a person who seems as if they can do anything, yet they really just dabble in the...
So there was no one to guest blog this week, but the message below comes to my inbox periodically and I found it incredibly helpful. If you enjoy it as much as I did, I encourage you to subs…
This week's A.P.T. goes out to the Blueprint Theater Project and The Human Variations. If you are a producer who loves experiential work or is fascinated by language, you will have a really …
This week's retro post comes from 2010. This is a trick I use to stay on top of email and it still works and helps me all the time. Enjoy. Excelsior! June 30, 2010 The email tennis match and…
When we commit to doing something that is often just the beginning. The real work comes when we actually start doing that task. The initial push is the toughest because it is the easiest to …
In many of my consulting sessions recently I have met with people who are trying to build their business, find investors, and find partners. Many times they will tell me that the main thing …
This week's guest blog comes from David Homan who has been an advisor on ConnectorCon. In this post he makes some interesting observations about the dynamic of profitability vs. impact. Chec…
This week's A.P.T. is Steven Shalowitz and his podcast The One Way Ticket Show. This is a show that asks the people involved if they had a one way ticket, where would they go and features a …
This week's retro wednesday is all about how the collecting of trading cards is great prep for networking. Check it out! September 28, 2011 What comic trading cards taught me about networkin…
If you are in the midst of a new venture then you most likely are looking to have a meeting with someone at a higher level in your industry or even outside of your industry. Many times getti…
a Theatre company. Last week, I went and experienced something very different in the world of theatre. I did not go to a theatre space, I went to a hotel. I did not sit in an audience, I sat…
This week's guest blog comes from Nati Hardin. I first met Nati when I was working on the S.A.M. talks last year and we had some great conversations about theatre and education. Now Nati has…
This week's A.P.T. is Gray Scott. Gray gave the closing keynote at the first ConnectorCon and blew us all away. Gray is a Futurist which is a fascinating profession that you can read more ab…
This week's retro Wednesday post is all about networking. Have you played Jenga recently? Excelsior! August 12, 2009 I play a lot of jenga Remember this game? It always seemed so simple righ…
So you may be asking yourself why you would need a LinkedIn account if you have a Twitter or a Facebook. The truth of the matter is that LinkedIn serves a very different purpose than the oth…
How you deal with disappointment with yourself. Sometimes you are going to ask someone to do something for you. Sometimes you'll put your faith in that person and sometimes they will let you…
No guest blog this week, so I thought instead, I would have a few videos guest blog. Here are some great talks. Enjoy. Excelsior! In case the videos below don't appear: Video 1 Video 2 Video…
This week's A.P.T. is Michael Ian Cedar of Ask Yourself in Entertainment. I first met Michael when I wrote this blog post back when I was first starting and he was the only one to answer. So…
This week's retro wednesday post comes from 5 years ago! I was a lot wordier back then. This is a post all about dealing with money as a producer. If you are about to venture into a project,…
Whenever I meet with someone for a consultation or just a general catch up session and they are having trouble raising money, finding a job, selling, etc. I always find that there is one thi…
So here we are at another Monday and many of us are heading into the office to slay our dragons and eat our frogs. If today looks like it may be especially challenging for you, remember that…
This week's guest blog comes from Alex Mallory of Poetic Theater Productions. I have been a huge fan of their work and have really enjoyed getting to know Alex and her team. Here she tells t…
