If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ~Gandhi In our last conversation, we talked about The Resistance; that invisible force that rises to oppose any action we try to make to improve…
One of my favorite books of all time is a short little gem by Steven Pressfield called The War of Art. In it, Pressfield outlines what he calls “The Resistance.” The Resistance is a cosmic force that rises to oppose any form of change or any work you do to make yourself, or the world,…
“I could never get a keynote speaking slot, it would freak me out!” “Whenever our monthly sales exceed $80,000 I start to sweat. I’m waiting for something bad to happen — sure enough it always does.” “I thought it was too good to be true, I had my dream team until one of them quit,…
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard…
Making significant decisions is one of the most challenging aspects of leadership. When you are making decisions outside of your experience base, or when the landscape has changed, and the data isn’t pointing in a definite direction, this gets even more challenging! Maybe there are strong opinions in your team that are leading in different…
As business leaders, it’s our #1 job to make decisions. We want to make decisions quickly, but also in a way that eliminates risk and gets our team on board with the final decision. In our last message, we talked about how using “gut instinct” worked fine for decisions we have made a million times,…
As business leaders we have one job, and that’s to make decisions. But how do we make decisions? What process do we use? Do we “go with our gut”? Or look at all the angles and reason it out? The best business decisions are those that are made purposefully, without wasting a lot of time…
In our last conversation, we talked about how there’s no shortcut to good hiring. If you want to find rare talent, you have to develop a robust pool of candidates and screen for the best people. But there is one way to do some of that work before you have a need so that you…
When you need to add a critical member to your team, whether because you’ve grown, or because you had a team member quit, the situation can feel desperate. Everyone feels overworked, especially you, the business owner. You are not just doing your job, but at least part of the job you need to hire for,…
In our last email, I asked you what you’d do if one of our best employees quits. The most common reply that I got was to try to win Nadir back, for example: “What can we do to keep you on the team?” ~ Frank McClung “Nadir, are you absolutely sure about this? Is there…