“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” – Darren Hardy Our habits define us. I like to tweak how I approach days and I experiment with my habits continually. These days, I have a few things that getContinue reading “Updating My Daily Routine”
Tag Archives: Leadership
Alignment as a $36M Running Value
https://youtu.be/JayayDzkh8Y The SaaS company WorkBoard announced it closed a Series B round for $23M to total out its fundraising to $36M to date. At this point with their revenues tripling year over year, they have market validation. With more complexity and faster growth, keeping the main thing the main thing is a core business challengeContinue reading “Alignment as a $36M Running Value”
Minimize Your Digital Platforms
We have a hard time appreciating what drag does to our lives and work. If you’re used to sifting through your junk to find your clothes, notebooks, gadgets or everything to help you in a day, the friction may be lost on you. It’s become a habit that’s comfortable and unnoticeable over time. It’s easyContinue reading “Minimize Your Digital Platforms”
The Purpose of an Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs are heroes in our society. They fail for the rest of us. ~ Nassim Taleb Yes, entrepreneurs are indeed heroes. Ultimately, entrepreneurs are about initiative and responsibility for risk. However, at a fundamental level, entrepreneurs are problem solvers. They own the difficult problems others are reluctant to carry. There are a sea of ambiguousContinue reading “The Purpose of an Entrepreneur”
How to Drive Clarity
Are you doing what you are supposed to be doing? Is the work you have been doing for many years as relevant today, or are you having to unlearn and reinvent? I think that effort and working hard are relatively natural for many driven and successful people that I know. The hard part is theContinue reading “How to Drive Clarity”
Maintaining Energy
Pushing on your work takes an intense amount of energy. And without energy, it’s hard to maintain consistency, perseverance and results. Energy is not a given. You have to foster your routines and habits to keep peak performance going. I like to hike, play tennis, trail run and snowboard to get me into a biggerContinue reading “Maintaining Energy”
Schedule Working Meetings
I am a big fan of working meetings. They cut through the back and forth of getting something done. It actually creates time and space to get real work done in real-time with another person or group. Too often, we talk about the secondary stuff: What we are going to do. When we are goingContinue reading “Schedule Working Meetings”
Getting Caught Doing the Right Things
Photo by Skitterphoto on Pexels.com How do you know if you had a solid day or week of output? We can easily get deluded into thinking we were highly productive, but we may have simply stringed together fleeting days of busy activity. Sometimes, simply maintaining that appearance of effort can make us feel justified. Productivity makesContinue reading “Getting Caught Doing the Right Things”
Don’t Get Fooled By Heroics
We humans tend to live by emotion more than logic. It’s why politicians, business leaders and religious authorities can sway the masses too often. You may have heard that famous saying, “A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.” It’s an opportunity for heroics to come into play. And those affected by a crisis areContinue reading “Don’t Get Fooled By Heroics”
The More You Know, The Less You Need
“The more you know, the less you need.” ~ Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, Let My People Go Surfing Knowledge is always accessible and allows you to need less indeed. Compare how pros approach their work versus amateurs. Pros, people that know what they are doing, have the following characteristics: Relaxed Focused Simplified Efficient Amateurs throwContinue reading “The More You Know, The Less You Need”