Are you here to win? Or are you here to play? Just as we separate fun vs. competitive sports leagues, ensure that both get the support development and enjoyable experience they need and desire, we need the same with startup pitch competitions. Market viability is the...
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7 Symptoms of The Business Killing Habit That Nukes Your Plans And Cripples Your Productivity
One of the biggest yet least known problems that established business owner’s face that they don’t realize has to do with assessing their work capacity. By capacity, I mean the total amount of work you, your team, and the company can perform, recover from and adapt...
Getting It Done: 3 Steps to Help You Stop Overestimating Your Capacity & Underestimating The Effort Required
Overestimating your capacity is a bad keystone habit that enables a lot of other self-sabotaging habits, and while there are ways to turn things around, as with any addiction, you’ll be vulnerable to repeating bad problems and must maintain constant vigilance. This...

Real Good vs. Feel Good – Why Startup Pitch Competitions Need To Be Divided By Market vs. Social Focus
Are you here to win? Or are you here to play? Just as we separate fun vs. competitive sports leagues, ensure that both get the support development and enjoyable experience they need and desire, we need the same with startup pitch competitions. Market viability is the...

7 Symptoms of The Business Killing Habit That Nukes Your Plans And Cripples Your Productivity
One of the biggest yet least known problems that established business owner’s face that they don’t realize has to do with assessing their work capacity. By capacity, I mean the total amount of work you, your team, and the company can perform, recover from and adapt...

Getting It Done: 3 Steps to Help You Stop Overestimating Your Capacity & Underestimating The Effort Required
Overestimating your capacity is a bad keystone habit that enables a lot of other self-sabotaging habits, and while there are ways to turn things around, as with any addiction, you’ll be vulnerable to repeating bad problems and must maintain constant vigilance. This...

Finding Your Flow: 8 Business and Life Altering Benefits of Getting Capacity Right
Being aware of your true, effective work capacity as an individual and as a company is an essential life skill. Most established business owners struggle with it. Overestimating what they can do & underestimating the effort required, is a surefire, one-two recipe...

Capacity Counts: 25 Points of Peril & The High Cost of Getting It Wrong
Being unaware of your true effective capacity as an individual and as a company is deadly. If the leader of the company overestimates his capacity, he’ll flood his company with unrealistic expectations, fantasy projects, and vague goals that will cripple the...

Does Winging It Work For The Long Haul? Do Upsides Support Sustainable Strategies?
Is constantly flying by the seat of your pants a sustainable strategy? Can you make it to big wins just by cycling through the trending tactics of the moment? There are many out there who proudly swear by this approach and just wing it. And there are many more who...

What is a Growth Engine? 3 Key Features of Complex Business Systems That Actually Work
Just what the heck is a growth engine anyway? Where do you find them? How are they different from marketing solutions you can buy off the shelf? What exactly does the term Growth Engine mean? In this post we’ll cover the gist, key components, to help you filter out...
Finding Your Flow: 8 Business and Life Altering Benefits of Getting Capacity Right
Capacity Counts: 25 Points of Peril & The High Cost of Getting It Wrong
Does Winging It Work For The Long Haul? Do Upsides Support Sustainable Strategies?
What is a Growth Engine? 3 Key Features of Complex Business Systems That Actually Work
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