Heard someone quoting someone “The most important thing in life is authenticity and if you can fake that, you will be successful”.

This is not a cynical construct though, it’s about entering new fields of endeavor and mastering them so that even though you were not authentic…

• Your dreams and true visions will be crushed by people that “care”, but think they are somehow sick because your visions doesn’t match theirs.
• If you are not disciplined, focused, and driven, the people closest to you can hurt your dreams the most

You are not the self-confessed grandson of Jack Welch. You do not have great “gut instinct”.

It sounds obvious enough, but almost all managers grossly underestimate the role of personal likes and dislikes, upbringing, favoritism, stress, desire for…

A while back I had written a post “Decision Making Is a Science” in which I urged people to stop making pseudo-scientific decisions based on instinct. This is an important companion to that post. Lately, it’s become even more important to make rapid decisions in the absence of…