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...
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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...
The 80/20 – This 9 Step Process Will Help You Identify Your Top Performing Efforts Bringing Most of Your Results
If you take time to identify the top-performing 20% of your efforts, you can focus on stewarding their growth and optimizing your efforts. This is the promise of the 80/20 Rule, but the trick is learning how to find it. The Concept and History In Brief The rule states...
How The 80/20 Addiction Leads to Business Failures
When people talk about the 80/20 Rule, they are most often referring to the idea that 20% of an effort produces 80% of the desired results. And that by focusing on enhancing that 20% you can optimize your business. However, there are a few problems with this concept...
Addicted to Zeroing Out Your Inbox? Here’s Why You Need To Stop
When you sit at your computer, if the first screen you pop open is your email inbox, it’s probably your goto workspace throughout your day. The inbox is a great place to be responsive to business needs and customers, but it’s overrun with distractions, that help you...
Where Hustle and Hype Meet – 5 Steps to Build Your Operational Integrity
You’ve probably never heard of it. One of the simplest ways to regularly drive repeat customers and referrals is to strive to achieve and maintain operational integrity. Simply put it is the measure of alignment between your hype and your hustle, your words and your...
Episode 14: The 10 Perils of Platforms and 11 Survival Tips to Overcome Them
https://youtu.be/AcRXZJvnLcA Welcome to the Heroik Hour, the podcast where we discuss and bring together Technology Leadership and Culture to help you fired up and mission ready for life. I’m your host, Nicholas McGill, Chief Experience Officer for Heroik Media. Thank...
The Heroik Hour 13: Unfair Advantages & The Hidden Job Market For Executives
https://youtu.be/WdC4RMKLTG8 Show Links 9 Things Re: The Hidden Job Market" http://getheroik.com/9-things-executives-need-to-know-about-the-hidden-job-market/ Show Notes Welcome to the Heroik Hour, the podcast where we discuss and bring together Technology Leadership...
4 Critical Lessons CEOs Can Learn From Marissa Mayer’s Failed Yahoo Turn Around
Let’s dive right in. Marissa Mayer got a lot of press, hype and buzz when she took over. She was very influential force for women. However, professionally, her strategy was scattered, and her tactics were cherry picked from plays that were over-hyped and poorly...
Looking at Big Data, Does More Guarantee Better?
Are you struggling with calculating ROI on your big data initiatives? You’re not alone. Many are reluctant to ask their peers about it, others don’t talk about it, but the elephant in the room needs to come atop the agenda, as does the culture that finds it...
Leave Competitors In The Dust By Designing Experience From The Top Down
Technology has enabled a global, always-on market. The speed of disruption is eroding industries that were once rock solid. Consumers have more options than ever before. In fact, they have so many options, that there are entire new industries to help them decide and...
Digital Transformation Starts With Strategy: 3 Things That Leading Businesses Do Differently
When it comes to successful digital transformation, most businesses have a lot of growing up to do. On the quest for the competitive edge in the Digital Age, simply adding technology to your business model will not get you that edge. What you need, is a clear...
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