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Stumbled onto Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions for organizations this week and it was exactly what I needed and so impactful for me and our business. The five questions are: What is our Mission? Who is our Customer? What does the Customer Value? What are our Results? What is our Plan? The Self Assessment Tool…
This year our iThemes customer focus is WProsper, specifically we’re going to focus on helping our customers make money with WordPress and iThemes. I just wrote a post titled Why You Should Embrace Prosperity (and Not Feel Bad About It). I admit to being hung up on the word for many years, but when you…
In 2006, I clicked publish on a blog and it forever changed my life. Since then I’ve kept clicking publish, taking chances, and putting my work, opinions, ideas out there for the world to see (and hopefully be changed for the better). I commissioned this illustration by my friend James Dalman to highlight my talks…
If you need some inspiration, or a kick in the pants, to Click Publish on a project, business, idea, product, blog, etc, I have something just for you. Here is my 5-minute lightning talk from WordCamp San Francisco that I gave a couple of weeks ago. Here are the slides to the talk as well:…
“If everything you’ve done until now is just the beginning, what’s next?” –Dan Sullivan, StrategicCoach.com This question has been inspiring (and somewhat haunting) me this year. You can apply this to every aspect of your life — personal, family and professional. But since I rarely like to look back, it’s helped me think about what…
My mom texted me this photo last night and I immediately asked to get a print so I could hang in my office. I want to tell this story in person to everybody who visits me. This is my grandfather’s first business on grand opening in July 1967. It was a drive-thru restaurant in Big…
For the past couple of months, I’ve been asking a new question as we consider or get close to green lighting big ideas, opportunities, projects and partnerships. How could this fail? It’s the question I find asking myself, or our team, or whoever we’re working with … not as a way to be pessimistic about…
I’ve written before about how we should all seek to Be the Solution at work. And I want to expand on that for working within teams. Work is all about problem solving. Using our unique talents and experiences to find solutions to problems. And the team players, the ones who understand they are hired for…
My family and I just got back from a week in Cabo, Mexico, which we approached as a workcation. I say that because it was not meant to be a full-on vacation like many assume it was (say Cabo and it’s hard not to think that!). We were there meeting with business friends and doing…
Wanna be a good leader and manager? I have found the ONE sustaining, redeeming, enduring thing you have to do. But it’s remarkably simple so you’re likely to dismiss it. CARE You could screw most of the other stuff up, but if you simply care about people they’ll follow you to the ends of the…