Ever notice that the thing you most want to do in your business is the thing that’s the hardest to find time to do? It’s easy for the busyness of business to take over and make it such that every day, it seems like you’re getting further and further from the core of your [...]
I found myself missing being in the Army last week. When Angela found out about it, she didn’t find herself missing us being in the Army, so a constructive and transformative conversation followed. To explain what I was missing, though, I’ll have to give you some background. My last two positions in the Army were [...]
There comes a time in the midst of busy lives and business where you just have to knuckle down and plow through some of the projects on your plate. Perhaps it would be better if someone else did it. Perhaps there is a smarter way to get it done. Perhaps your resistance to it is [...]
Everyone knows the tactics by which I am victorious, but no one knows the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” – Sun Tzu “Watch your lane.” Spend a little time around Army teams and you’ll hear that statement. Although it has many uses, one of the most common is from the lessons you learn [...]
As businesses move through different stages in their lifecycle, they gain and shed levels of complexity. While it’s true that more mature businesses generally carry greater levels of complexity, the kind of complexity changes. For instance, a business that’s pretty simple on the tech infrastructure at one stage may get pretty complex at the next [...]
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ali Luke from Aliventures. You won’t find a single blogger with twenty years’ experience. You’d struggle to find anyone with ten. The same goes for a huge number of roles: social media whizzes, SEO experts, YouTube stars… The old rules are disappearing. When I was a teenager, [...]
