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I spend a good chunk of my free time reading business books.  Whether it’s the classics like Christensen, MgGrath or Moore, or newer business books by the likes of Youngme Moon or Cal Newport – I love learning about different

Andrew Eifler December 11, 2016December 12, 2016 Business No Comments Read more

The Allure of Next Time

I can barely count the number of times it has happened. I learn something new and revolutionary at work – a new team management insight, a new prioritization method, a new leadership strategy, or even just a new way to

Andrew Eifler July 19, 2015 Business 3 Comments Read more

Windsurfing

In honor of summer and the long 4th of July holiday weekend, I figured I would reflect a little bit on one of my favorite summer activities: windsurfing. I learned to windsurf from my father during our annual family trips

Andrew Eifler July 5, 2015 Life No Comments Read more

Cross Training

I still remember how it felt during my first week of work in the ad agency world: walking down the halls past unshaven creatives, weaving through cubicles of media planners, and schmoosing with account executives. I had finally made it

Andrew Eifler June 28, 2015 Education No Comments Read more

Lifelong Learning

Just a short thought for today. Over the course of my career I’ve had a lot of successes and a lot of challenges.  There have been reasons for celebration and reasons for reflection.  In both states, learning has always been

Andrew Eifler February 8, 2015 Education No Comments Read more

Baking Bread and Achieving Objective Distance From Your Work

Let me start by saying that I am a lousy baker.  Well, I suppose it goes broader than that – I’m really a lousy cook in general.  I have no intuition for food preparation at all and the only way

Andrew Eifler May 18, 2014May 18, 2014 Human Behavior No Comments Read more

The Key to Smart Failure: Believing You’re In Control

Last week I wrote about three seemingly unrelated experiences that coalesced to teach a common lesson.  This week, I’d like to take the same approach on the topic of smart failure.  1) Seth Godin Recently at AppNexus’ New York office,

Andrew Eifler April 27, 2014 Human Behavior 3 Comments Read more

Learning a New Skill

Most of the students in my seventh grade math class studied trigonometry.  I, on the other hand, studied something far more valuable to my long-term education: pen tricks. Throughout my childhood I always noticed that all of the smartest people

Andrew Eifler February 17, 2013February 17, 2013 Education 3 Comments Read more
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