Feb 25, 2021 | Mindset & Identity
I could sum up the existential journey of most business owners like so: Make it up as you go. Learn the rules. Break the rules. Make your own rules. Our culture and economy organize around rules. In school, we learn the rules (both explicit and implicit) so that we...
Feb 17, 2021 | Future of Work
There’s a difference between being busy—and being squeezed. Neither is very pleasant. Nor are they sustainable. But one—busy—is a state that you’re moving through on the path to greater sustainability. And the other—squeezed—is the end result of the structures,...
Feb 11, 2021 | Humane Business
Try as you might, you can’t squeeze your way to a bigger business. We certainly try, though. We squeeze more hours into every day. We squeeze more customers through our sales process. We squeeze more offers into our business model. We squeeze more and more...
Feb 3, 2021 | Humane Business
It seems that every year we’re showered with new ways to exert control over our businesses, our customers, and ourselves. There are always new must-have sales funnels, frameworks for persuasion, and apps. There are new planners to use and new ways to declutter our...
Jan 20, 2021 | Mindset & Identity
I’m fascinated by the way that different people can look at the same problem and ask wildly different questions to solve it. This fascination is one of the reasons I became a podcaster. I wanted to ask entrepreneurs about how they arrived at their ideas and...
