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Retaining Your Top Talent
It's Crazy Out There. It's never been harder to hire talented staff right now. Every person I know who is looking for work is finding work. And often multiple offers. Even crazier is that they're getting offers that are incredible - mostly because even those hiring companies are struggling to find and hire top talent...
You Don't Need Another Course
I know this is a crazy post to write - right as I'm getting ready to publish 9 courses on this site. But if you've been reading on this site long enough you know this is a pretty big pitch-free zone for my own products. And today I want to challenge you a bit, after...
Product Ladders & What People Want
Like I told you the other day, I'm working on bringing all my courses from different locations all to this site. And the moment I started building out the course catalog, I realized I was going to need to create some bundles. After all, people won't want to buy every single course separately. But that...
The Challenge of Lessons Learned
Are \"Lessons Learned\" Real? I've spent the week talking with business owners at CaboPress. One of the things that constantly surprises me is how much we know collectively that we don't apply to our own, or each others' situations. It makes you wonder if lessons learned are really learned at all. How many times have...
Three Lessons for Non-Technical Founders
Non-Technical founders can navigate the initial challenges of a startup as much as anyone else but it's never easy - so here are three tips to help re-orient what you think you know.
Analyzing the Competition
Why is is important to analyze the competition? Anytime I hear someone say, \"we don't have any competition,\" I know two things. First, they are defining competition incorrectly. Second, they're in for trouble when it comes to growth. It's why I think it's critical to spend consistent and continued effort analyzing the competition. But why...
Are You Learning The Wrong Lesson?
That Time I Got Caught Shoplifting I had a tiny allowance growing up. It's not like I needed the money for anything. I'm talking about pre-driving age. So the money was just for fun stuff and snacks. But I felt like it wasn't enough. The first time I stole something, I walked into a supermarket...
Life is Poker not Chess
Life is Poker not Chess. The entire day today I've had this sentence running thru my head. \"Life is poker, not chess.\" It's because I'm reading Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets again. I read it when it first came out, and I'm going thru it again because she put to words a framing I use...
On Perfectionism
I don't know when it happened. Or rather, I don't know when things changed. I clearly remember a time when the internal monologue in my head was negative every time I failed. And I clearly recognize that today that voice doesn't make its way into my stream of consciousness. So at some point it went...
Our Instincts are Wrong
Are Your Instincts Serving You? Imagine that you and I are sitting in the living room, hanging out. And suddenly you hear a small sound - a knocking of sorts. Then it's a bit of a sliding sound. I...
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