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How Bad Do You Want It?
Today’s Strategic Reflection Post in two sentences: In selling, our job is to diagnose the problem, recommend the solution, master our sales process and ask for the business; the client’s job is to decide whether to buy. If we measure our performance only by whether they say yes or no, we may be judging ourselves…
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A Practical Look at Faith in Business
Faith is often avoided in business. It either sounds too religious for the boardroom or perceived as too impractical for strategy meetings. Yet every entrepreneur exercises faith. None of these come with guarantees. In a Return to Love, Marianne Williamson tells us that there is no such thing as a faithless person. The question isn’t…
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Your Comfort Zone is Not the Enemy
I’m currently reading Choose Hard by MJ DeMarco. He reframed the comfort zone in a way that made me reconsider one of the most common ideas in personal and professional development. For years, we’ve been encouraged to “get out of our comfort zone.” The implication is that comfort itself is the problem. If we’re comfortable,…
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Complete Fearlessness Is a Recipe for Ruin
Yesterday I wrote that cynicism is not wisdom. It is often fear wearing the mask of intelligence. Today, I’d like to explore the opposite extreme. Complete fearlessness. We often celebrate fearless leaders, fearless entrepreneurs, and fearless decision-makers. Yet complete fearlessness is not a virtue. In business, it can be be a recipe for ruin. Fear…
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Running a business is a lot like the Netflix survival series Outlast
Every day presents a new challenge. You wake up not entirely sure what you’re going to face. A client delays payment. A key employee leaves. A proposal you were counting on goes nowhere. A competitor makes a move you didn’t anticipate. Something that should have taken a week takes a month. You make plans, but…
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What is the Point?
Feeling like there is no obvious point to it all is a deeply human experience, especially during overwhelming times. And these current times are if nothing else – overwhelming. With 24/7 news cycles, rapid technological shifts, and global volatility, it is completely normal to feel overstimulated and at the same time wondering what exactly is…
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Present Moment Avoidance Ensures the Absence of Miracles
The word miracle carries a lot of weight. Miracles are those extraordinary events that defy natural laws, usually attributed to a supernatural power (like God) or divine intervention, causing wonder and amazement We usually pray for miracles: So generally miracles manifest as healings, deliverances, resurrections, or provision, exceeding our control and expectations. What if we could experience…
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The Future of Work – Lessons from China
The Economist recently reported that more than 200 million Chinese workers — nearly 40% of the country’s urban workforce — now make their living in the gig economy. This seismic shift is worth taking a closer look. Beneath the surface of efficiency, flexibility, and tech-driven freedom, China’s gig economy tells a story that’s both modern…
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Caught my eye this week…
Every creation starts with a lump of useless clay. The potter leaves a part of himself in every creation. Only the potter can hear the clay. He listens to know its breaking point, to learn its limitations, to reach past them or to accept them and make them a thing of beauty. regina brett It…
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Psychology is the most under-appreciated, yet most important part of building a company
We hear a lot about the external journeys of startups. Mitchell Harper – Big Commerce co-founder shares… “Everyone talks about startups being akin to roller-coaster rides. There are high highs and low lows. The highs are easy to deal with — you celebrate with your team, share the victories with your friends and partner and maybe even…
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