I love to cook. I love to try new foods, new recipes, new ways to surprise my family and friends with flavor. I especially enjoy experimenting with new combinations of ingredients and techniques to create my own recipes. In fact, in the past year, I’ve found this style has dominated my cooking…as well as my approach to work and life.
Benjamin Franklin said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This goes for what you cook up in the kitchen and the board room. So, I’ve been shaking things up a bit, finding new ways to blend my previous experience with the new methods I’m learning every day. Social media is still very much a living, breathing experiment for most and I’m enjoying the dash of madness it’s added to my worklife.
What have I learned? Whether cooking food or business, I like some recipes more than others. Some I’ve found just aren’t for me. Others I think I need to try again before I perfect them, or at least until they taste right.
What ingredients are you using? What’s your recipe? What are you cooking up?
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While I’m at it, this might be a good time to welcome you to Dash of Madness and thank you for taking a minute to visit. I created this space for sharing my thoughts on communications, content and community. I’ve been a journalist, PR pro and marketer for more than 15 years, and while I’ve picked up a few things, I’m proud to say I’m still learning. I hope you are too. And I hope we can use this blog as a means for starting a meaningful conversation, around these topics and about the things that drive us to make our business and the way we go about it better than it was yesterday. You came this far. Will you join me again? Tell me what you’d like to see here.
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Looking forward to your perspective. Great job on the site.
Thanks, Meg. Looking forward to sharing more and getting you engaged here too! Just as the greatest recipes take a harmonious blend of different ingredients, the success of this blog takes collaboration.
True to form, even getting this live on time involved the help of two dear friends, Jeff Cutler and Gradon Tripp. Love you guys. Thanks for all you do!
Indeed, mixing it up, in the kitchen and the office, is a sure fire way to find new great dishes. Great first post to what I’m sure will soon be chock-full of well thought-out ideas and experiments. Looking forward to what comes next!
Thanks, Gradon. I appreciate your high expectations and aspire to meet them. I’m also counting on sharp minds like yours adding great perspective here and keeping the dialogue fresh. Thanks for your friendship and for all your help to make this effort possible.