Labels

“What do you do?”“Oh, I am an entrepreneur.”“Yeah. So, what do you do?”You see where I am going with this. Some labels are bland and meaningless. The title “entrepreneur” sounds as if a person is like a ship without a rudder. Some people got creative and began calling individual employees within the womb of a […]

Workaholics

Millennials and Gen Z have made the cliché, work smarter, not harder real.

Self-leaders

Who are self-leaders? The self-leaders lead and manage their own work. They set their own goals, timelines, and work hours. They do everything that an adept manager does to execute and complete a project. So, what’s the difference?  They do everything themselves for themselves. A Self-leader heads an organization of one. Once they know the […]

Big vs. Good

“Tell me something about your company.” “Well, we are a construction company with over 6000 employees.”  “Wow! nice!” Compare the above with this. “Well, I am a one-man-band working out of my home.” There is a pause, a smile, and maybe, “nice.” Why is “big” more impressive? Why is expansion always the goal?  Many giant […]

Forecasts and plans

All longer than one-year projections are guesses. Waste no time on false precision….

Building block

Why do people write history? Why are the events and biographies recorded? Is it because they make a good read and will sell many books? History’s primary purpose is to teach curious minds to learn from others’ experiences, failures, and successes, and not fail. Some say that failures teach us a lot. Several people have […]

Naysayers

“If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it—the contrarian truth,” Peter Thiel. When you start something, you will often hear,”Don’t waste your time. It has never worked. It cannot be done. ”  People saying this are the naysayers. Someone wanted to invest $10,000 in Alexander Bell’s invention, […]

The new framework

An epoch of economic change with radical outcomes is underway. It is an opportunity for us to adopt a new framework—other than a job.