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We can laugh at the paper shuffling reference as a bygone era, however, you would not be hard-pressed to see manual processes still being run today. Regardless of the efficiencies, cost-savings and better customer experience of digitization, old habits can die hard, especially in businesses. Never mind if your livelihood
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I can see why people often want someone to simply listen rather than give their opinion. The person with the problem knows more than you do about their situation. When you don't have skin in the game or know the nuances of a predicament, your advice can come
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I left a message for a company yesterday again. They have still not called me back. I am thinking about moving on. Too bad. There's a lot of business that could come their way. I tend to be a loyal person to the things I like. In this
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Pushing on your work takes an intense amount of energy. And without energy, it's hard to maintain consistency, perseverance and results. Energy is not a given. You have to foster your routines and habits to keep peak performance going. I like to hike, play tennis, trail run and
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I love dealmaking. I agree with Robert Ringer's observation about dealmaking: "There are no statistics to prove it, but after years of experience, I'm absolutely convinced that dealmaking is the highest-paid profession in the world." I think the creative pieces and bringing ambiguous, and
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There's a saying that the enemy of the good is perfect. The longer I am in business, the more sensitive and skeptical I get of perfectionism. When I hear fixation on some endless detail that is not necessarily going to prove an idea, the less I want to
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I like spending the weekends thinking, learning and relaxing. The weeks are such a grind and intensive with deal making and doing business. Today, I was having some reflections on the NPR podcast, How I Build This: Lady Gaga & Atom Factory: Troy Carter. I embedded it above and you
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I am a big fan of working meetings. They cut through the back and forth of getting something done. It actually creates time and space to get real work done in real-time with another person or group. Too often, we talk about the secondary stuff: What we are going to
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It is truly refreshing to listen to candor in a world full of hype and noise. The connected world today feels like high school. We are inundated by popularity and hype continually because of the internet. And we have the sage advice of someone who has been persistent, humble and
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I heard a fantastic interview of an entrepreneur that adopted this motto in his ventures by Avot de Rabbi Natan, "Do not be afraid of work that has no end” I like closure and results. The kind of thinking that creates big movements, such as ensuring every human being
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The willingness to fail is important, because no matter how good you become at the nuances of dealmaking, your bottom-line results are tied to the law of averages. ~ Robert Ringer, essay on Dealmaking Empire Builders I bet there is a way to leverage, scale or parlay the skills or assets
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Have you ever noticed that drama people, those that welcome a life of continual crisis, can't seem to ever escape their problems? It's sad to watch a life full of crisis. I think it can happen to all of us if we don't protect