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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.
Creating a \"How to work with me\" Guide
Not Everyone Knows How To Work With You When you're adding new people to your team, they're stepping into a team dynamic and starting to work with a bunch of people they have no history with. In other words, they don't know how to work with you in the best way possible. Consider creating a...
Self-Service is the Name of the Game
A Guy Walks into a Fast-Food Joint… Sometime in the early 1990's I walked into a fast-food restaurant (Taco Bell) to see an ordering kiosk. This is long before we saw these kinds of touchscreens in fast-food chains (Taco Bell, McDonalds, etc.) in the last five years. It was a test back then. But it...
Want Different Results? Change The Game
A couple of years ago, a group of us decided to co-work together in San Diego - a house on the beach. It was an idea my friend Justin created, called BeachPress. We rented a house with tons of rooms, right on the sand, and invited everyone to just keep working on what they'd been...
Changing Things Up
Life is a Series of Choices The last job I had before graduating from college was at the fourth largest YMCA in the country. After I graduated, I went to work full time at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, a government-funded research lab. It's where I started working on web technologies in 1994. Not even a year...
What Do Customers Really Want?
We Want Bags of Cash, Right? My buddy Shawn, of WP101 fame, likes to tell a story about what customers really want. It starts with this idea that you're interviewing someone about what they want, and they say they want bags of cash. Don't we all? But if you push in further, and ask what...
Creating Block Themes with Full Site Editing
By now, if you've been paying attention to the world of WordPress, you've likely heard of full site editing (FSE) or at least seen the reference to it. Even if you don't know what it is, you've likely seen chatter about it, and maybe wondered what it would mean for you. There's good news for...
The Best Hosting for LearnDash
How do you decide the best hosting for LearnDash? There are a lot of folks who wonder how to find the best hosting for LearnDash websites. I wrote about this before, where I explained PHP Workers. But today I want to give you the four things you should consider, and the hosting options that are...
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