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"Everyone has an idea. But it's really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea." ~ Jack Dorsey You can't own an idea. But you can own the execution of an idea. I might have a new way
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Getting to action is one of the harder and rarer things in life. In a given day, I hear lots of ideas. Everyone has them. And there's something about the sound of our own voice that must comfort us. We like to talk, partly to clarify our thinking,
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Paying bills can be a drag. They are the nuisance of our modern existence in many ways. Miss a bill and it can create some angst and hits to your credit. Well, I like simple and powerful systems for doing business and life. I work with clients all the time
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Have you ever been frustrated at your IT person? You know, the one who builds an ivory tower that makes them the bottleneck for any simple requests? Years ago, I remember having a strategic meeting with an executive team on how to increase collaboration. Their processes and systems needed to
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Using Twitter can make you smarter. Yes, it can also make you dumber if you just waste time tweeting about a bunch of nothing. I had already posted about a way to use Twitter that makes it fun and relevant. Read that article to see how to capture your thoughts
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Yes, if you want to scale a business for revenue and efficiency, then it takes systems, process and automation. These are things I have done for many years and it takes an immense amount of energy and focus for an organization and its leadership to get to the result. Automation
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It can feel like a good leadership move to sympathize with the problems of your employees or workers. We all get to see that same storyline of sympathy play out in a show like Undercover Boss where the detached executive experiences the difficulties on the front lines. That is designed
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You've probably noticed the tension and unwhole feeling inside yourself from indecision and not committing fully. It's the cause of poor execution for many business people. I think so much is coming at us and many times, we are just overwhelmed. It's why being
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It's hard to get clear. When you think of all the exchanges with calls, meetings, emails and overall communications we have each day--we do those things to create meaning and drive clarity. Clarity is high value. Because when we are clear, we can execute without inhibition. It creates
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It does take special people to make ideas happen. The hard part of innovating comes when you execute. For a long time, you don't have rewards or feedback that tell you that your idea works. The effort and cost has a little bit of return. It's
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It's likely you have a Twitter account that was set up because everyone else was doing it. Or you may be active and interacting with the world of celebrities, locals and interesting people you find out there. It's a tool that can be used in so
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We have spent many hours consulting with different couples and business partners around their strengths. We help them understand who they are individually and how their styles interact with each other. In our time together with this couple, we walked through the various scores for both, interplays and how they