Listen up, because I'm about to tell you why your business is probably leaving mountains of cash on the table by ignoring the most critical role in modern business: the Product Manager. And if you're thinking "But Nicholas, I'm just a solopreneur!" then you need to...
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The No-BS Guide to OKRs: From Solo Hustler to Enterprise Behemoth
Listen up, because I'm about to save you from the biggest mistake most businesses make with OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). They treat them like New Year's resolutions – all excitement in January, forgotten by February, and buried under paperwork by March. The...
Keeping SCORE – The Complete Guide to the 7 SCORE Frameworks
Having the right framework to guide your organization's growth and transformation is crucial. The SCORE methodologies have emerged as powerful tools for different business contexts, but many leaders struggle to identify which version best suits their needs. This...
Podcast 206 – What to Do When You Have No Map
Welcome to the Heroik Hour Podcast the show where we help established owners get mission ready for life - I’m your host, Nicholas McGill and this is episode 206. And we’re going to talk about what to do when you don’t have a map for your business. Imagine...
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...
Capacity Counts: The 5 Lies You Buy Into That Cause You To Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Look back on your past year. How many initiatives and projects did you tell yourself, your spouse and your team that you were going to accomplish? How much actually got done? Don’t worry, those horrible stats are what most establish owners struggle with and it all...
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...
Digital Detox: 5 #OffMode Options To Help You Reconnect With The Real World
If you've been following the #OffMode series, you know that most people struggle with a lot of stress, anxiety and depression, and most of it shares a common source - our digital lifestyles and unchecked information diets. #OffMode is all about cultivating a...
4 Simple Ways To Help You Get Started With Your #OffMode
ReCap - For those unfamiliar, #OffMode #OffMode is a disciplined practice of strategic disconnects from your digital lifestyle. This is part 4 in a 5 part series to kick off the category. Here are the others for your reading pleasure: Part 1 – 9 Reasons Why Now is the...
#OffMode Fundamentals: The 4 Key Elements Of a Solid #OffMode Practice
Most of the major downers driving depression, anxiety and hindering your performance exist or are strongly connected to your digital habits on the web, and they spill over into the real world. It’s time to address this with a disciplined practice of some strategic...
The 6 Second Business Strategy – How To Avoid Gimmicks That Sound Like Fitness Scams
I can’t believe you clicked on this. Wait yes I can. Now let’s talk about why first, then, on my honor, I’ll deliver on the promise the 6-second business strategy. Here we go. The Internet is flooded with hollow promises of 90-day marketing programs (funnels, lead...
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Podcast 206 – What to Do When You Have No Map
7 Symptoms of The Business Killing Habit That Nukes Your Plans And Cripples Your Productivity
Capacity Counts: The 5 Lies You Buy Into That Cause You To Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Getting It Done: 3 Steps to Help You Stop Overestimating Your Capacity & Underestimating The Effort Required
Finding Your Flow: 8 Business and Life Altering Benefits of Getting Capacity Right
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