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Why Great Leaders Focus on Destinations, Not Directions
Do you find yourself micromanaging your team's every move? Are you frustrated when people don't follow your exact instructions? Do you wonder why brilliant employees seem disengaged when given detailed step-by-step procedures? If you've experienced any of these situations, you're likely falling into a common leadership trap: confusing the destination with the journey. The Destination...
When Different People Do the Same Job, Magic Happens
Your Best Performers Don't Look Alike for a Reason Every organization has them – those standout performers who consistently deliver exceptional results but approach their work in completely different ways. Like musicians covering the same song, they hit all the required notes but express them through their unique style. What if these differences aren't problems...
Keeping Your Top Talent Engaged
Keeping high performers engaged at work not only maximizes productivity, but also drives revenue up. I won't bore you with the research, but studies show that a single top achiever can deliver as much productivity as up to four average employees. In the heart of every small business, there are standout stars - the...
Scaling Your Business Requires Understanding Your Unit Economics
In the world of business, understanding unit economics is crucial for achieving scalability, profitability, and maintaining overall business health. It provides valuable insights into the financial performance of a company, allowing entrepreneurs and managers to make informed decisions about resource allocation, pricing, and profitability. I spend a decent amount of time talking about this in...
How To Navigate The Lean Years
Things are Going to Get Tough Instead of writing a post about the upcoming (or already here) recession, I thought I would go a bit broader and talk about how to navigate the lean years. Businesses of all sorts go into this time under a lot of stress. Let's be honest, I'm not an economist. I...
Premature Optimization is a Timing Mistake
In the end, your success or failure is a combination of what you control (your decision making) and what you don't (timing). Most people aren't really great at decision making. But that's something you can get better at. So let's move to the harder dynamic that we can't control - and that's timing. Everything in...
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.
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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...
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