Archive of posts from December 2020

It’s Not Critical

That important marketing or business challenge you’re wrestling with right now?

Two Steps to Better

Just two steps.

Unconscious Culture Change

Seen the changes?

If Things Were Normal

If only they were normal, perhaps we’d:

Simple Worldview

Simpler is often better.

Amazon’s worldview is fairly simple: “Number of dollars made is more important than profit margin”. In 2014 they were dancing between break-even and negative. Now, their Q1 2020 net income was $3.6 billion (on $75.5 billion in revenue).

Business Ideas and Card Games

Ever had a great business or marketing idea?

Why Everyone Else Seems Lucky

Seem to get less luck than others sometimes?

That Day In The Month

Do you have “that day” in the month?

Falling For Illusions

What illusions are you falling for?

Operating On Yourself in Business

I wouldn’t recommend trying to operate on yourself.

Go Deep Selectively

Do you like figuring things out?

Digital Cowboys

There are a lot of these.

Thank You For Selling Me

When do you say, “Thank you”?

Demonstrating Values

Do you demonstrate your values?

3 Years Happened

I didn’t even notice.

Brave Enough To Learn

Do you need to hear you’re the best? Or that you have still have things to learn?

Born as a Scribble

Every idea I’ve worked on was born as a scribble.

Unboxing a Digital Product

When you buy a physical item, it normally comes in a box.

When You Need Fancy

When do you need to get fancy?

Product Simplicity is Relative

Seen Adobe Photoshop?

Tempo vs Speed in Business

Speed.

How Not To Run Facebook Ads

After five minutes of scrolling through Facebook:

Making Better Trades

Ever ran (or seen) an online ad?

The Thing You’re Overcomplicating

There is something.

We Chose Monopoly

We chose to live in a world of monopolies:

You Look Great In That Hat

You wear a lot of hats in your business.

Grading The Week

What was this week’s grade?

Online Buying Vs Online Receiving

When you shop online, you buy a thing, then it arrives at your door a few days later.

What Makes Products Better

It’s not what you think it is.

This is a paperweight

This is a paperweight.

Temperance in Business

What’s Temperance and how can it benefit our work?

Books To Avoid

So many business books…shouldn’t be books.

Patient Execution

Got clarity over where you’re going?