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We are on a continuous journey of increasing efficiency. That's what you feel happening around you when your job disappears or businesses come and go. There are only customers and what they want. There's only the collective thinking from an enormous amount of talented people compounding
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The Peter Principle sure can be observed frequently and predictably, not only in hierarchies, but in new endeavors. Just because something worked at a lower level of pursuit does not mean it will work in the next level up. Common sense? Yes. But it is a principle that repeatedly gets
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I am not sure there are many safe places to hide any more. You can't hang low collecting a paycheck hoping your bosses don't notice. And everyone's getting squeezed. I have already been in several conversations with business owners this past week and we
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If you feel overwhelmed in life or seem to be putting out fires all the time without much forward progress, then consider how you manage expectations. I can understand that when you want to be helpful or valuable that it is easy to jump at requests. Or sometimes, you may
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Being a professional employer has a weird deal to it. You take the risk, responsibility and social burden of growing a business. However, this onus of responsibility is increasingly getting questioned where efficiency is proliferating, thus we find the middle class diminishing at a rapid rate. And the largest reason
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It is so fascinating to see how exponential growth from lower cost in technology is flattening the world. There is unprecedented democratization around bringing our ideas to market. And it starts with an idea. Many people that are trying entrepreneurship start out with money. Dumping money into building something perfect
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Our human brains have a hard time understanding or accepting exponential trends. We prefer and interpret events and trends to be linear. Like a nice Sunday drive that is steady in course, direction and speed, we think life events unfold this way. However, the reality is that we have acceleration
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There's more to life than just maintaining what you have and simply getting throug the day. Having laser focus around a few things that matter can make an immense impact towards big goals. However, that's easier said than done. First, you have to know what you
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We live in an unprecedented time in history. It used to be hard to start something. You needed infrastructure, people, permission, etc. That was how the industrial economy worked. The mass forced us to push with enough weight of force behind us. But now, you can put the pieces together
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Hearing that phrase, "You have to add value," can sound wonderful as part of your business habits. But what does it really mean? It can be a lofty idea without materializing into something real that connects with another person. The better question when you are working with a
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Abraham Lincoln is often quoted as saying, "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Is that what most people do? Most people start sawing away at their problems. I think it feels safe because you don&
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The logic of getting more education or credentials used to make sense in the past in the industrial economy. Things were nice and neat then. If you wanted a promotion or you got laid off, the thought process of becoming more marketable by getting an MBA, a law degree or