Membership-based Communities of Support for Local Bookstores

A way for bookstores to build an additional revenue stream, increase and reinforce their customer bases, and attract customers and other members of the community more often.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthMay 8, 2024books, businessComment

The Danger of Making Things Too Easy: The Value of Friction

While people and organizations have aimed to reduce life friction as much as possible, we might just want to add back in some of it for our own health and wellbeing.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthNovember 29, 2023business, Culture Comments

How the Obsession with Monetizing Hurts Us

Even the suggestion that you should not spend your time and energy on something without monetizing it significantly reduces the value of the activity.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 21, 2023business, culture Comments

The Problem with “Yes And:” Sometimes the Right Answer is “No”

If you say “yes and” to everything presented, including projects and ideas and even opinions, you don’t protect your own values and wants and projects and visions.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthMay 31, 2023culture, business, happinessComment

The Connection between Strength, Flexibility, and Balance

Follow me on a journey of light-bulb moments that took me through an exploration of physical flexibility, strength, and balance into their essential role in building more balanced, resilient societies.

Misguided Thinking on Paying Markups and Commissions

Why buying “at cost” is a myth. You can’t avoid markups and commissions—and you waste time by even trying.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthMarch 10, 2021sales, business Comments

The Cover Letter Gets You Hired

Want the job? Put your shoulder into your cover letter. The resume just provides supporting detail.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthAugust 26, 2020business, employees, hiringComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: July 2020

When it comes to my activity related to 2020 objectives, I finished the month of July feeling a little low in terms of accomplishment.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthAugust 5, 2020postmortem, business, coronavirus diaries, goals Comments

Finding the Intersection of Creativity and Effectiveness in Marketing

The overlap in the creativity-effectiveness Venn diagram exists: It just takes a little more expertise and ingenuity to find it.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJuly 28, 2020culture, marketing, business Comments

Will Crisis-Driven Authenticity Last?

The coronavirus crisis forced many people to drop pretense and futile attempts at perfection and simply act like real, flawed, often-awkward human beings.

ThinkingLeslie FarnsworthJune 9, 2020culture, business, management, employees, leadership, coronavirus diariesComment

Month-in-Review Highlights: April 2020

Coronavirus April managed to make up for March’s benevolence by throwing many activities related to goal achievement into the penalty zone.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthMay 6, 2020friendship, business, networking, postmortem, goalsComment

The Coronavirus Diaries: The Beginning of the End

Eight weeks ago, I started the coronavirus diaries to document the happenings, thoughts, and impressions I had during the pandemic. This marks the final consecutive-week entry.

The Coronavirus Diaries: Possibly the Penultimate

This is the seventh and possibly penultimate entry in a diary I’ve posted weekly to document the happenings, thoughts, and impressions I’ve had during the coronavirus pandemic.

JournalLeslie FarnsworthApril 26, 2020culture, politics, business, writing, coronavirus diaries Comments

The Coronavirus Diaries: All of Us Were Mistaken

When all this started, I’d predicted we’d be mostly back to normal by now. Others predicted it’d take a couple of weeks longer. All of us were mistaken.