Archive for 2015
Failure To Lunch
Never trust a culture that failed to invent chairs. You know how to stand up for everything you believe in but when the work needs to be done you only know how to stand around. It’s a euphemism. You’ll figure it out eventually.
Read MoreExpert Introductions
Publishing a few introductory tutorials on a subject does not make you an expert in it.
Read MoreListen Down!
Listen for your critics, not to your critics.
Read MoreExtraordinary Mistakes
Extraordinary careers are made on giving ourselves permission to make mistakes, choosing a different direction, and trying again.
Read MoreWashed Out Wrong
Your career is not a game show. You don’t wash out just because you got one answer wrong.
Read MoreFear Of The Known
You hear that? “You suck.” “You cannot draw.” “Your playing is awful.” “That will never work.” “She wont talk to you.” “You’ll never be a success.” That’s your inner critic. It is powerful. People say don’t listen to it. I say listen very carefully. It can make you strong. That inner critic is a demon…
Read MoreExpensive Opinions
Your opinion matters to me… when I am paying $300 an hour for it.
Read MoreUrgently Important
Is this important or merely urgent?
Read MoreUnseen Directions
Always make sure what you are doing today moves you in the direction you need to go. Even if you cannot see your destination yet.
Read MoreActionable Thought
Always hire a man of action over a man of thought. You can teach someone to slow down and think but you cannot teach someone to speed up and act.
Read MorePatriotically Political
Politicians and patriots. Figure out who is who in your organization and you will have figured out who is slowing you down and who is moving you forward.
Read MoreGrovel Road
I have always taken the attitude not that I need to convince you to hire me, but that you need to convince me to work with you. I need money, I just don’t need *your* money. I don’t imply you should be all swagger and attitude when interviewing, but life is short, why work at…
Read MoreEffective LinkedIn Marketing
How to use LinkedIn on a daily basis for effective self-marketing: 1) Invite one person. 2) Write two emails. 3) Comment on three articles. 4) Comment on four status updates. 5) Like five other status updates.
Read MoreAim Is Off
Aiming too high is as bad as aiming too low. Often, it is worse. Aim too low and deliver a perfect but insufficient product. Aim too high and often we fail to deliver at all.
Read MoreMarketing Crossly
I have found that cross-channel marketing of the same repeatable message to be so effective that it boggles my mind someone would say something once, in one location, never to say it ever again anywhere else. The only thing in this entire world that cares that you told the same story as part of your…
Read MoreMusical Meetings
I find meetings go a lot faster when there is one less chair than there are participants.
Read MoreBit Organizer
If your job consists mostly of organizing and filing and re-arranging bits, you are effectively employed as a glorified clerk to organize and file someone else’s dreams.
Read MoreFrench Letters
Non-compete. Non-disclosure. Non-circumvent. If the document you want me to sign starts with that word and you ask if I will sign it, please pardon my French, but my response sounds very bloody similar.
Read MoreRepeatable Effectiveness
Effective marketing is based on repeatability.
Read MoreJust Because…
Just because I can, doesn’t mean I should. Just because I should, doesn’t mean I will.
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