Audacity

Napoleon once proclaimed: “L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace.” More than a hundred years later General George Patton used the same phrase with his troops: “Audacity, audacity, always audacity”

Audacity is what you need to face great challenges with bold courage. This is not just…

Meeting Hygiene

For the last couple of months I’ve spent way too much time in meetings. Anything from short check-ins to multi-hour strategy sessions. Often I find myself running from one meeting to the other.

The end result is that I regularly feel like I haven’t done anything productive…

Engage in Battle

General George S. Patton once said:

“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of…

Safety Is Never First

You surely have heard this a gazillion times: “Safety first.” When you first started riding your bicycle your mom might have used it as a well-meant warning. When you were in the school gym and your instructor yelled at you for climbing on top of the equipment. When your driving instructor…

Culture Happens No Matter What

Once you’re out of the weeds of building the first iterations of your product or service, once you are over the adrenaline rush of your first release, once you’re putting yourself onto better financial footing — culture becomes often a question entrepreneurs start to think…

Five Goals

Warren Buffett, the brilliant billionaire investor, was once asked by his private pilot how he manages to be so successful given all the many, many demands and opportunities he has on his plate.

Contemplating this question, Warren asked the pilot to create a list with all his goals…

Are You Climbing The Right Mountain?

We entrepreneurs sometimes find us in the rut of doing busy work. We are working hard and long, putting in the hours and pushing the boulder up the mountain.

And as true as that might be…