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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
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Photo by Skitterphoto on Pexels.com How do you know if you had a solid day or week of output? We can easily get deluded into thinking we were highly productive, but we may have simply stringed together fleeting days of busy activity. Sometimes, simply maintaining that appearance of effort
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We humans tend to live by emotion more than logic. It's why politicians, business leaders and religious authorities can sway the masses too often. You may have heard that famous saying, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." It's an opportunity for heroics
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If you spend most of your time trying to convince people of what they need, you may be in for a highly expensive and wasteful lesson from the marketplace. I get it. When you have an idea that you love, you think others should love it as well. But, we