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 Heroik Hour 10 – Every Brand Deserves a CAPE – Character, Alignment Purpose & Energy
https://youtu.be/JI6panzn0Vw Welcome to the Heroik Hour, the podcast where we discuss and bring together Technology Leadership and Culture giving you a little Heroik TLC to get your growth engine rev’d up and mission ready for life. I’m your host, Nicholas McGill ,...
9 Things Executives Need to Know About The Hidden Job Market
It’s true. Beneath the hub bub and spam of traditional, mainstream social networks, and miles beyond the drudgery of LinkedIn, there exists a different kind of community, a corporate underground, that offers amongst other things, access to a treasure trove of...
Introducing The Dark Arts Guide to Social Media
Every marketer and the whole world seems to tell you, that you need to be all-in and engaged in social media, building a following on every platform, advertising on every platform, and so on. They want you to do it all right? Oh, and to completely dodge the ROI...
Memes 101: Better Know Your Memes
What is a meme? A “meme” can be a still or animated image used to convey a phrase, concept, or context, it is used to replace words. It is usually a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc. that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet...
Show Notes The Heroik Hour 09 – 11 Tips for Do Overs, Pivots & Building From the Ground Up
https://youtu.be/N5weA495sMo Disclaimer: Below is the script I use and riff from for the show. It doesn't have everything, and if you're looking for the hidden track after party and the tips and nuggets therein, you'll have to listen to the entire end of the show. The...
Show Notes: The Heroik Hour – 08 – How to Supercharge Your Self Worth
https://youtu.be/WktjANFsm2E The Heroik Hour Episode 8 - How to Supercharge Your Self Worth DRAFT 2 Hey There, and welcome to the Heroik Hour, the podcast where we discuss and bring together Technology Leadership and Culture giving you a little Heroik TLC to...
4 Take Aways From Walmart’s Acquisition of Jet.com
1. Buying that which you don’t understand. Jet seemed to inject all of their money into their marketing, on the novelty of curation. There was little evidence to show that they were retaining the customers when the novelty wears off. Jet was just too new. It had a...
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...
Show Notes Episode 03: Discernment – How to Quickly Sort the Best From the Rest and Focus on the Important
https://youtu.be/ZozngQzMT4k Disclaimer: Below are the show notes and script that covers the podcast more or less. These notes will be more concise and tight as I find my narrative style and framework for the show. So bear with me. Welcome to THE Heroik Hour Podcast...
Show Notes E02 : Abundance – How to Build Live & Enjoy The Great LIFE
https://youtu.be/-vh-R44cokc Below are the show notes and script that covers the podcast more or less. These notes will be more concise and tight as I find my narrative style and framework for the show. So bear with me. Welcome to THE Heroik Hour Podcast and thank you...
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