You’ve done the research. Background checks. Interviews. Exams. You’ve talked to friends. Colleagues. Advisers. Your parents. Your pets. But there are still nagging doubts. How do you know you’ve found the right person? I mean…how do you KNOW? You don’t know. And that’s ok, because you can’t know. …Or can you? ++++++++++++ Why do people […]
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Here’s Why You Should Work at a 3 Person Company (Startup, or not).
Working at a 3 person company, I learned more about myself than I could have imagined.
I wouldn’t trade this experience for any degree…what I learned, can’t be learned any other way.
Here is a defining story from this period of my professional life. I carry this with me today (for better or worse).
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I Am In The Problem Solving Business. Are You?
Customer service is doing exactly what someone asks you. Solving problems is identifying something that’s broken, fixing it, proving that you fixed it, and being personally accountable for the result.
What business are you in…customer service? Or solving problems?
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This is the Fastest — and Only — Way to Make Change Happen at Your Company.
What is the only reason why some ideas work, and others don’t?
Not agreement. Not consensus. Not endorsement.
Belief.
Belief is what happens when someone else weaves some part of you into their own fabric. They change themselves in some way as a result of you.
Belief doesn’t drive someone to complete a task. It drives someone to reframe how they complete every task, every day.
Do you believe in your company?
Does your team believe in you?
4 Tips To Make Your Presentations, Dashboards, and Visuals Awesome.
Guess how long it takes to make a bad presentation?
About the same amount of time it takes to make a good one.
Follow the simple tips below to help your next one be a good one.
Here’s How Relying on Your Data Can Kill You.
There was a giant explosion, and people died. The control room was blanketed in deafening silence. It seemed impossible. It was impossible.
But it happened anyway.
This is not the opening to Andy Weir’s new novel. This is January 28, 1986. The day the American space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff and sent 7 astronauts — 1 of them a schoolteacher — to their deaths.
The people involved made a mistake. It’s the same mistake made every day by thousands of professionals. Maybe millions.
Is your boss making this mistake? Your clients? Your Employees?
Are you?
Here’s Why You Should NOT Work at a Small Company / Startup.
Everyone wants to work at a startup or a very small company, Or everyone thinks or feels they should want to.
Why?
Working at a big company can be rewarding. Life changing. It can allow you to impact the lives of millions.
I’ll prove it.
You CAN Make Change Happen. Here are 3 Ways.
In a big company, making something new happen is hard. There’s a lot of reasons for that.
If you’re trying to make a new company (or division, or department, or LOB), it is even harder. That’s because of all the same reasons, plus even more reasons.
I won’t talk about the reasons here. Reasons are interesting, but they don’t help you make progress.
Reasons = excuses.
Here are some things you can try to eliminate the need for excuses.