Archive of posts from October 2018

Daily Post #0324 • October 31 2018 • Experience

Looking beyond common sense

Most markets, industries, and cultures have ‘common sense’:

Daily Post #0323 • October 30 2018 • Craft

Picking the right gear

If your team’s work were a car…what gear is it in?

Daily Post #0322 • October 29 2018 • Experience

Prestige vs Heritage

What’s the biggest difference between prestige and heritage?

Daily Post #0321 • October 28 2018 • Craft

When you don’t know how

When you don’t know how to do something, remember, you do:

Daily Post #0320 • October 27 2018 • Narrative

Your next big success

Don’t wish for it to arrive, just yet:

Daily Post #0319 • October 26 2018 • Resilience

The answer to our worries

Most teams competing in the marketplace have a lot of worries, be they spoken or unspoken.

Daily Post #0318 • October 25 2018 • Experience

What we say and how we say it

It’s not what we say, but the energy and conviction with which we say it, that makes the difference:

Daily Post #0317 • October 24 2018 • Craft

Success vs Faith

“I should prefer to lack success than to lack faith” – Seneca

Daily Post #0316 • October 23 2018 • Craft

One day your company will be gone

We don’t like to think about it when things are going great.

Daily Post #0315 • October 22 2018 • Momentum

Toiling without force

How many times a month do you rush at work?

Daily Post #0314 • October 21 2018 • Momentum

We’re in this together

You, and those you serve. It goes something like this:

Daily Post #0313 • October 20 2018 • Experience

Consistency with yourself

We see a lot of teams and individuals in the marketplace that are inconsistent with themselves:

Daily Post #0312 • October 19 2018 • Craft

Sort-of-delegating

“If you stop supporting that crowd, it will support itself.” – Seneca the Younger

Daily Post #0311 • October 18 2018 • Craft

Write what works

What gets written down and shared, grows:

Daily Post #0310 • October 17 2018 • Momentum

Great partnerships reveal themselves

If you’re a team who reaps the rewards of strategic partnerships in the marketplace, you may notice that everyone falls into one of two categories.

Daily Post #0309 • October 16 2018 • Momentum

Growth mindset needs fixed goals

You’ve probably heard of growth mindsets and fixed mindsets.

Daily Post #0308 • October 15 2018 • Craft

Put inbox in box

Many important things that distract us from our meaningful work aren’t all that important.

Daily Post #0307 • October 14 2018 • Momentum

Hoot selection

Life just keeps on happening, regardless of whether we perceive it as noise or focus.

Daily Post #0306 • October 13 2018 • Experience

They don’t get it

There are parts of your work that others don’t understand. Sometimes, those ‘others’ are your buyers, and that’s an issue.

Daily Post #0305 • October 12 2018 • Experience

Pursuing the resistance

It’s the same with business and bicycles: if you increase the resistance, you increase the value…

Daily Post #0304 • October 11 2018 • Craft

The meaning of FLOW

“Don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever.” – Marcus Aurelius

Daily Post #0303 • October 10 2018 • Experience

You have more job titles than you thought

What’s your job title? Is that all you do?

Daily Post #0302 • October 09 2018 • Craft

The tactic doesn’t matter

How did that last digital training course work out for you?

Daily Post #0301 • October 08 2018 • Craft

Anatomy of a goal

Year 2000, flying cars. Year 2020, all-green energy.

Daily Post #0300 • October 07 2018 • Craft

Toiling with Amor Fati

“Amor Fati” is Latin for loving one’s fate, to make the best out of what comes our way. For teams doing meaningful work, this premise compliments our toil:

Daily Post #0299 • October 06 2018 • Craft

It’s only complicated if you make it so

Complication is the enemy of execution. See if this sounds familiar:

Daily Post #0298 • October 05 2018 • Experience

Being your own customer

Would you do business with you, based on how you treat yourself?

Daily Post #0297 • October 04 2018 • Craft

Tweakaholicism

Tweakaholic. Noun. One who is obsessed with tweaking things past the point of return.

Daily Post #0296 • October 03 2018 • Craft

Selection time

You have twelve great options. Which do you choose first?

Daily Post #0295 • October 02 2018 • Craft

The marketplace isn’t fair

It may be unfair, but it is predictable:

Daily Post #0294 • October 01 2018 • Craft

It’s getting harder to be good

Because ‘good’ is always being commoditized:

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