- June 24, 2021I'm old enough to remember the time (not that long ago) when the most important player on most basketball teams…
- April 29, 2019"How Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon's Competitive Advantage" should be mandatory reading for anyone in nonprofit and public agencies,…
- January 2, 2019When you hire a lawyer, part of who you're hiring is someone who has made thousands of mistakes in law…
- November 26, 2018As a grant writer who also likes to cook, I understand the importance of simplicity and clarity in both my…
- June 18, 2018We've written many times in many ways that the golden rule of grant writing is "he who has the gold…
- August 21, 2017Did you know Dave Barry used to teach business writing? Neither did I. But he did and in this conversation…
- June 28, 2017Jake recently gave me Cal Newport's book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World.* Newport describes "deep…
- April 9, 2017Maybe its because I'm somehow no longer 35* and might be as old as dirt, but TV ads seem entirely…
- February 21, 2017Last month I was working on a California State Preschool Program Expansion proposal, and California is one of those states…
- December 5, 2016Grant Writing Derangement Syndrome (GWDS) occurs when the grant writer works on too many nonsensical, poorly organized, or simply maddening…
