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Today is my 50th go around the sun and inspired by KK I wanted to capture some of the things I have learned and hope will be helpful to my fellow humans on the journey: 1. Life is about the people. They matter more than things. 2. The law of
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In the game of service, the ideal exchange between parties is to provide value for value. You have something you can deliver to a customer that brings great value to their business. They, in return, pay you. Framing the way to exchange value is often done with a proposal of
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When we are working in teams, the amount of energy we spend trying to get everyone moving in the same direction can be exhausting. Many of the meetings we conduct are to get clarity. With the onslaught of information coming into everyone's life, we can't assume
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When you have so much uncertainty in your projects, relationships and dealmaking, the fear of loss or desire for perfection can be inhibiting. I find it best to create optionality. Pick the path with the most options and keeping your choices open. This is especially true when it comes to
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I rarely run into someone that is not frazzled. Because our technology and tools are so efficient, the amount of information hitting us is bewildering. Get more customers, get more problems. Get more emails, have more work to respond. The signal to noise ratio is a real problem. When you
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"I have come to learn that part of the business strategy is to solve the simplest, easiest, and most valuable problem. And actually, in fact, part of doing strategy is to solve the easiest problem, so part of the reason why you work on software and bits is that
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Every week you have the opportunity to move the needle and get your business notching up a level. Not only do you have to get the necessary work you committed to others done in your projects and tasks, but you have to make space and time to work on your
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Many times when we are working in the grind we get so busy that we can't see the forest from the trees. You may be working hard, but your hard work may be on things that don't contribute to the bigger priorities. It's why
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You have the whole world at your fingertips, and if you want, you can get people to help you get work done, build systems and grow your business. The challenge is to be clear and manage projects with the desired outcomes articulated and identified. It can sound obvious, but there
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How many caller id calls have you ignored? How many emails simply go unanswered? We are all suffering from attention deficit and most people have to keep the noise out and focus just to survive and get what they think is important done. If you are not a person of
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Here's a hard conversation to have. The reality of intelligence, stress tolerance and competence and how you fit in certain roles has an immense and real bearing on your success. Great to listen to and what your belief system might be compared to reality, as Peterson talks about
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How do you know most of your work matters? There are probably a few things that matter to produce the outcomes important to an organization. Most work is simply effort and cost and does not produce meaningful results. You can see this with the ridiculing of office politics and people