Archive of posts from January 2019

Daily Post #0416 • January 31 2019 • Momentum

All Growth Hurts

Biz magazines prefer to romanticize growth as a graduation from pain. Not so:

Daily Post #0415 • January 30 2019 • Experience

The Money Isn’t In The List

It’s an old marketing saying and an old marketing lie. It was never in the list:

Daily Post #0414 • January 29 2019 • Momentum

The Gig Economy Isn’t The Answer

It’s just a market response to a broken workplace:

Daily Post #0413 • January 28 2019 • Momentum

Come Hell or Hail Mary

Every business operating in the marketplace has problems. What’s our relationship with them?

Daily Post #0412 • January 27 2019 • Experience

The Thing About Handouts

…is that they tend not to do as much good as you think they do:

Daily Post #0411 • January 26 2019 • Momentum

TTA, Time To Action

What’s your TTA (time to action) when an opportunity arises?

Daily Post #0410 • January 25 2019 • Narrative

Character Select

We won’t all have the chance to get to know you like you know you. But we will all get to form an opinion about you from your message:

Daily Post #0409 • January 24 2019 • Narrative

Access And Excuses

Access to the people–and things–we wanted access to used to be a pipe dream. That became a popular excuse for inaction.

Daily Post #0408 • January 23 2019 • Resilience

Avoiding Pain, Business Edition

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle

Daily Post #0407 • January 22 2019 • Resilience

Haunting Success

The things that haunt us have something to teach us:

Daily Post #0406 • January 21 2019 • Experience

Caring For Your Industry

I drove for one hour today. In that one hour I saw:

Daily Post #0405 • January 20 2019 • Craft

Except It’s Not Native

Being a native means “you’re like us”. How native are you to those you serve?

Daily Post #0404 • January 19 2019 • Craft

Rule Not Found

Ever wonder why we treat rules like laws in our work? They’re not the same thing:

Daily Post #0403 • January 18 2019 • Craft

What Will You Make Today?

Ever wake up feeling “ugh” about something you need to do that day?

Daily Post #0402 • January 17 2019 • Resilience

Class Comes Free

We all know Instagram is full of people trying to appear as though life is different from reality. It’s because we have things the wrong way around:

Daily Post #0401 • January 16 2019 • Experience

Stoic Selling

What do ancient stoic philosophy and ethical sales have in common?

Daily Post #0400 • January 15 2019 • Momentum

The Path To Progress

…is paved with all sorts of things we wish it weren’t:

Daily Post #0399 • January 14 2019 • Narrative

Legacy Hour

What happens when we start the day with legacy work?

Daily Post #0398 • January 13 2019 • Momentum

Making discomfort comfortable

Well, maybe not comfortable, but less uncomfortable:

Daily Post #0397 • January 12 2019 • Narrative

The danger of goals

…is that we risk missing lessons taught by pursuit:

Daily Post #0396 • January 11 2019 • Craft

When the jobs are all done

One day, all the ‘jobs’ will be done, and material safety will be assured. What then?

Daily Post #0395 • January 10 2019 • Craft

Crazytalk

What’s your relationship with crazytalk?

Daily Post #0394 • January 09 2019 • Momentum

What comes first

You’re sitting on a goldmine of opportunity. We often find it through testing. Remember what comes first:

Daily Post #0393 • January 08 2019 • Craft

On writing the date wrong

How many weeks does it take you to write the date right after the new year?

Daily Post #0392 • January 07 2019 • Momentum

Pseudo-progress

Not all progress is made equal:

Daily Post #0391 • January 06 2019 • Momentum

Not surviving the year

“The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can” – Seneca

Daily Post #0390 • January 05 2019 • Experience

Things have changed

From emerging market verticals to better customer service, the old ways keep fading away:

Daily Post #0389 • January 04 2019 • Momentum

Some goals aren’t for achieving

Some goals are all about the climb:

Daily Post #0388 • January 03 2019 • Resilience

Post-holiday habits

It’s hard to get back into good habits after the holidays.

Daily Post #0387 • January 02 2019 • Craft

Do you love your work properly?

How do we love our work properly?

Daily Post #0386 • January 01 2019 • Craft

Still too complicated

The thing about doing business with your team is, it’s still too complicated.

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