Month: October 2017
Your Team is NOT Comprised of Adult Sized Children
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People are considered adults in their private lives, at the bank, at their children’s schools, with family and among friends — so why are they suddenly treated like adolescents at work? Why can’t workers be involved in choosing their own leaders? Why can’t they speak up — challenge, question, share information openly? – The Seven…
Your Salary and the C-Suite aren’t as important as you think
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For fathers, manliness means living up to the responsibilities you have to your family. – All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Business It’s not enough to have a big salary. It’s not enough to have a spot in the C-suite. If you have those things and have hurting relationships with your…
Join me for 12 weeks of Accountability
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We’re doing something a bit different on the podcast for most of the next 12 weeks. I’ve got a number of products to launch and you’re going to join me for 12 weeks to see how it goes and how far we get. Join me with your own 12 weeks of goals.
What Path Are You Building For Yourself
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There is a great book called Switch that I just finished reading. It uses the metaphor of an Elephant and a Rider to talk about change. The rider can only control the elephant for so long. At some point the elephant can just go where it wants to and the rider is along for the…
Key Questions to Ask Those You Care About
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How might I be shutting down your ideas and actions? Do I do anything that makes you cringe? Do I do anything with the best intentions that isn’t perceived that way? Am I doing anything that diminishes others, even if inadvertently? Sit down with your spouse/partner and talk through these questions. Sit down with your…
The Worst Way to Start Your Day
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Anytime I start my day with junk food for the brain, the quality of the day goes down. I’m less happy, focused, and productive. I spend a ton of time on the internet and don’t get any real work done. But if I start my day with health food for the brain, I find that…
If you don’t have these 3 hours, your business is broken
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Your business is broken if you don’t have at least 3 hours a week set aside for personal improvement. That’s reading books about business or learning some new design technique or some new code. If you tell me that at some point in the future you’ll have the time. You’re lying. The best predictor of…
Antigoals
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My friend Jason brought this link up to me recently. The Power of Anti-Goals So, what is your anti-goal? What does the worst day of work look like for you? Knowing this can help you say no. No is the most productive word you have Say no more often. That leaves you room to say…
What you DO matters, not what you INTEND to do
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You may say to yourself “I could have built Facebook” or whatever. There are no new ideas under the sun. You may say “I’m going to be a great husband”. That’s a great sentiment, but if you don’t actually do anything about it, then the sentiment doesn’t matter at all. You need to go listen…
Are you hiding from the TRUTH of your business?
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Denial is a wonderful thing; it lets you ignore reality until reality punches you in the face. – Profit First We all have something we’re ignoring. Maybe it is the fact that your business isn’t profitable. Maybe it’s the truth that you are bad at customer service. Maybe the truth you hide from is that…
