There’s a big push by some business celebrities promoting just work harder and harder, longer and longer. Don’t have the outcomes you want, put in more hours. Don’t like your life, you’re not working hard enough. Although I do believe a lot of people don’t understand how hard/long you do have to work to achieve anything of merit, this hustle porn people are addicted to, somewhat misses the point. It’s not only about …
Over the years, I’ve experimented with many different approaches to find a delegation style that works best for me…which means first finding a lot of ways that don’t work along the way: Delegation ≠ Abdication. It doesn’t work well for them when I just toss it over the fence without direction or follow up. Delegation ≠ Micromanagement. It doesn’t work for me (or them) to hand it off and then be all up …
The beauty of owning a marketing and branding company is when there is no word in the English language to describe a thought or feeling we want to convey…we just make it up. It took our leadership team many, many hours to succinctly put in words the feelings we had when we were doing things just right, but it all came together with our purpose statement of: “Fostering empowergized leadership to spark transformational change.” …
I didn’t realize until fairly recently that I have food sensitivities, but the challenges created from the symptoms have actually made me a better leader and entrepreneur. It sounds crazy, but it’s true. One of the biggest hurdles many entrepreneurs face is making the leap from the early years as the jack-of-all-trades hero doing everything, to the visionary leader setting the tone, direction, and accountability for their team to accomplish. In fact, when …
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I recently heard a story about a tribe of indigenous people who had been completely isolated from society in the mountain jungles of their country. When first contact was made, the mayor of the local city invited the leaders from the tribe to visit the city and see how different things were now. The mayor was bursting with pride and excitement helping them “discover” modern technologies: skyscrapers, airplanes, computers, and on and on. …
“…and this scar is from when I hit my head on the corner of the brick fireplace…and this one is from when my cousin and I stood on opposite sides of a roll of fencing, he jumped off on 2 instead of 3 and it coiled up splitting my eyebrow open, barely missed my eye actually…and this one…” The scars on my face (and there\’s a lot of them) tell the story of how …
A few years ago, my wife and I were visiting some friends in LA. When we got to our dinner spot, there was a bit of a wait, but it was one of those restaurants where a lot of the kitchen was visible from the floor, and one station in the front particularly caught my eye. The person that really captured my attention was a salad chef…who was more like a salad artist. Ticket …
In every professional sports championship winning interview, I inevitably hear some version of “these are the best group of guys I’ve ever played with, it took every person on the team to get it done”. I’ve played sports my entire life, and I can tell you winning is fun, a lot of fun; winning bonds people together forever… losing sucks, losing pulls people apart at the seams. Something I’ve never been able to …
When it comes to problems, it often feels like whenever it rains, it pours…whenever there is one big issue, there are soon to be ten. After a particularly hard day of body blow after body blow, I found myself reflecting on why my stress response isn’t specifically tied to the size/severity of the onslaught. My realization…my emotional reaction is almost entirely based on the mental frame I place around the problem. When I …
“So what do you do?” goBRANDgo! is a marketing company that works with $25M-$250M B2B companies in the manufacturing supply chain whose owners are in their 50s-60s looking to make a successful leadership transition in the next decade or so…they typically have a couple grandkids, a lake house, and ride motorcycles.” Eyes widen, jaw drops…then several follow up questions ensue: “Wait, what?!? How did you identify that niche? Did you start out there?” …
