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How to Deal With Copycats and Idea Thieves

One of our Lift Off alums recently asked how to deal with copycats and idea thieves. She’s been rocking it, getting great press, and things are taking off for her – and, as it always happens, copycats and idea thieves have started showing up and taking her work and phrases as their own. One of [...]

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Clear the Deck Before You Deck the Halls

Managing yourself, your business, and the holidays can be a tricky balancing act. There’s only so much of you at the same time that there are a lot of places you need to be. With all this going on, I’ve got a challenge for you: find the 1-3 projects that would feel the best to [...]

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Steer Through the Skid

When you’re driving on ice and your vehicle starts slipping, one of the worst things you can do is slam on the brakes. The counter-intuitive but right course of action is to continue to steer through the skid, keeping your wheels going enough that they can grip and get you back on course. What’s true [...]

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Work-Life Balance: Waking Up To The Real Problem (Part II)

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michael Van Osch of ThinkTankMen.com. In Part I of this series, I talked about the real issue behind what we commonly call a lack of work-life balance. In many cases, work-life balance is referred to as the root cause for being unfulfilled, unhappy and burnt out, when in reality, [...]

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Work-Life Balance – Waking Up To The Real Problem (Part I)

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michael Van Osch of ThinkTankMen.com. “Work-life Balance. Work-life balance. Work-life balance.” You hear about it a lot. And given some recent stats that show only 20% of Americans are passionate about what they do for a living, it’s hardly surprising that work-life balance is a major topic [...]

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Be Prepared To Make Bad Decisions

I’ve been thinking a lot about planning, decision-making, and execution lately. Okay, I always think a lot about those topics, but I’ve been thinking about them even more intently than usual. You’ve no doubt heard someone – maybe me or Seth or other tributes to failure – encourage you to fail fast and fail often if you [...]

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Watch This Before Our Next Meeting

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to watch this video.] We’ve all sat through a bad meeting. If we’re honest, we’ve all probably led a bad meeting, too. Al Pittampalli’s new book, Read This Before Our Next Meeting, is a great antidote to the bad meetings. In [...]

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Flee or Grab: How Do You React to New Technology?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ali Luke. Think back twelve years: 1999, the end of the last century. What did your life look like then? I’m guessing it was pretty different from your life today. In 1999, I was fourteen. We’d had dial-up internet at home for a year or so, a [...]

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3 Questions To Ask Before You Hit Reset On Your Business

During today’s open teleclass for our Lift Off Retreat, Pam and I talked about how to press reset on your business. Because we’ve been working with each other for so long, she rightly guessed that I had a framework for how to make those decisions – and she would probably also guess right that I [...]

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