Leadership
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Been reading The Gap and The Gain by Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan. I’ve known of this concept of which the book is named of Dan’s for a while now. But I stumbled into the chapter talking about success criteria and tried working on that over the weekend. A question to help me unearth the…
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So many times we get into these self-limiting, self-defeating conversations with ourselves. I didn’t get the project done. I’m not a leader. I haven’t built a million dollar company. I haven’t mastered giving and getting feedback. I’m not where I want to be. But then there is one of the most powerful words in the…
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If I had a time machine and could go back to talk to Cory in 2007-2008 and give him one and only one piece of advice, I would NOT talk about how to double revenue or how he should get to automatic subscription revenue as fast as possible, or nuances of team dynamics or how…
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Been reading How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Katy Milkman and it’s really superb. One nugget of gold stood out to me this weekend. Basically she writes that giving advice to others, particularly unsolicited advice, can be defeating and deflating. Too often, we…
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One of the EASIEST yet impactful takeaways from 12: Elements of Great Managing I got over the years but one I see bosses and companies being goofy about is the Second Element: Give your people the materials and equipment they need to do their job well. There are some things that are no-brainers, especially for…