Archive of posts from December 2018

Daily Post #0385 • December 31 2018 • Resilience

A gift to yourself

Christmas is when we give others gifts. New Years is when we give ourselves a gift..

  • Permission to fail is a good gift. It’ll allow us to have a noteworthy year where our work can thrive.
  • The commitment to a discipline is a good gift. No New Years resolution will work without discipline.
  • The key to our own happiness is a great gift. The gifts above don’t work so well at all without this one.
Daily Post #0384 • December 30 2018 • Craft

The year doesn’t stay new for long

“New Year” means new possibilities. We feel ready to make the most of every day.

Daily Post #0383 • December 29 2018 • Craft

Reversing is expensive

“Going backwards” is a metaphor for doing things wrong. Why is that?

Daily Post #0382 • December 28 2018 • Momentum

Little trials

People find success in various different ways. For teams doing meaningful work, it seems the secret of big success… is small success, repeated.

Daily Post #0381 • December 27 2018 • Narrative

Changing characters

Between Christmas and New Year lies a few strange days where nobody really knows what day it is. We feel ready for change in the new year. But are we really?

Daily Post #0380 • December 26 2018 • Experience

Guilty before or after

It’s the day after Christmas. Feeling guilty yet?

Daily Post #0379 • December 25 2018 • Experience

Gifts vs care

Today is all about gifts. What makes a good gift? Care:

Daily Post #0378 • December 24 2018 • Resilience

The tension on the horizon

They say we overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can do in a decade.

Daily Post #0377 • December 23 2018 • Craft

The cost of doing good work

…is that we are then held to a higher standard, including in our spending and investing:

Daily Post #0376 • December 22 2018 • Momentum

Warning, growth may be uncomfortable

Our relationship with discomfort says a lot about our growth potential:

Daily Post #0375 • December 21 2018 • Narrative

Insecurity in the marketplace

Entrepreneurs, team members, clients, partners. You might be insecure:

Daily Post #0374 • December 20 2018 • Momentum

The thing about deadlines

…is that nobody dies.

Daily Post #0373 • December 19 2018 • Experience

Doing business like Vegas

Vegas may be Sin City, but it still has some lessons for teams doing meaningful work:

Daily Post #0372 • December 18 2018 • Craft

Over-automated

Automation. Delegation. Abstraction. Don’t overdo it:

Daily Post #0371 • December 17 2018 • Resilience

Muscle memory alternative

Muscle memory requires regular ‘muscle workouts’. Is there an alternative?

Daily Post #0370 • December 16 2018 • Craft

Team Threats

What threatens the success of your team?

Daily Post #0369 • December 15 2018 • Momentum

Strategy temperature

Strategies have temperatures. There are two kinds:

Daily Post #0368 • December 14 2018 • Experience

‘Why’ vacation

Most of us take vacations. Why?

Daily Post #0367 • December 13 2018 • Experience

“Our selected charity”

This morning while exiting a plane, the speaker announced support for “our selected charity”. So close:

Daily Post #0366 • December 12 2018 • Craft

Stop trying new things

It may be unpopular advice, but there comes a point where we should stop trying new things.

Daily Post #0365 • December 11 2018 • Momentum

365 Days

One post per day, one year later:

Daily Post #0364 • December 10 2018 • Craft

3 things to stop over-doing

Following yesterday’s notes on over-achievers overdoing things, here are 3 things to stop over-doing:

Daily Post #0363 • December 09 2018 • Experience

3 things to start over-doing

Over-achievers like to overdo things, for better or worse. Here are 3 things worth over-doing:

Daily Post #0362 • December 08 2018 • Experience

What you’re best at

You think your work is the best. Best at what?

Daily Post #0361 • December 07 2018 • Experience

Brand mood

We think about logos, letterheads, and websites. What about ‘mood’?

Daily Post #0360 • December 06 2018 • Momentum

New kind of team culture

Being an entrepreneur has been glamorized.

Daily Post #0359 • December 05 2018 • Momentum

You are 80 years old

A day may come where this will be true. These words will still be here. What will you regret?

Daily Post #0358 • December 04 2018 • Momentum

Which type of tree are you?

You should know the answer before your next strenuous team project.

Daily Post #0357 • December 03 2018 • Narrative

The world got smaller

Technology changed again. Are our teams changing with it?

Daily Post #0356 • December 02 2018 • Experience

What kids can teach us about marketing

We often think of kids as anti-social screen-zombies who don’t know how to make eye contact with other humans anymore.

Daily Post #0355 • December 01 2018 • Experience

Underpriced platforms

We like email. We like Google. We like saturated platforms. Unsaturated platforms? Not so much:

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