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When The Wrong People Quit
The Trend of Quiet Quitting You've likely heard of quiet quitting - the dynamic where people don't actually leave your company. Instead, they simply stop working as hard. They skate. They put in the absolutely minimum amount of work to feel good about collecting their pay. Suddenly, this summer, everyone was talking about it. Guess...
The Case for Pruning
There are two things I know about pruning. Now, you should know that I actually shouldn't use the word \"know\" as if I'm a master gardener. I'm not. It's probably more accurate to say that I read this on Wikipedia and learned two things. But the reason I was able to grasp them so quickly...
Do you really need a coach?
Business coaching is a great way to accelerate past predictable challenges you may not be able to see. It's also a fantastic way to get the accountability you need to help drive a culture of execution.
New Courses Are Available
Having worked with hundreds of teams building and marketing new products, there are patterns of mistakes I see all the time. The crazy thing is that every one of these mistakes is completely avoidable - without a PhD or ten years of experience. But the mistakes are common because of our belief systems. How we...
Doing Sales Sequences Right
It won't surprise you that I woke up today with emails in my inbox from some company whose form I filled out a few days ago. It likely won't surprise you either that in that same inbox were emails from vendors whose forms I filled out months ago. Short sales sequences and long sales sequences...
Five Habits That Will Make You Smarter
Blogging daily is a discipline. It's not as hard as it looks. You sit at the computer and you don't get up until your post is published. Sure there are little tricks, but that's not the hard part. The hard part is trying to be helpful. And even that isn't the hardest part. The hardest...
Creating the Perfect Membership Site for Coaches
Are You Providing Coaching for Clients? If you're providing any kind of online coaching for your clients, you've likely faced all the same challenges I have. So when a friend emailed me and asked how to build the perfect membership site for coaches, I thought, I know the answer to this. But the more I...
Estimating: The Problem We All Face
Everyone Thinks Their Problems Are Unique If there's one thing I've learned by talking to product owners, agency owners, freelancers, and software developers over the last two decades - it's that we all know others must be experiencing what we are, but we feel like we're the only ones. The dissonance between our heads and...
Want to Close More Deals?The Single Story You Have to Tell
There are a Million Growth Strategies Out There... If you want to close more deals the challenge is figuring out which strategies to follow and which to ignore. Today I want to share with you the single story that you have to get right, and include in everything you do. What I mean by that...
Repeating Our Mistakes
Let's Stop Repeating Our Mistakes. I had several product-related conversations today. And in each, it felt like I was repeating lessons that we all knew. The problem isn't knowledge. It's the mental shortcuts we make that put us in a situation where we find ourselves repeating our mistakes. Bobby Bowden was a football coach at...
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