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...
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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...
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...
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...
I Want to Believe But…Why Quantifying Social Capital is So Completely Full of It
TL:DR - Digital metrics of Social Capital like (followers, likes, connections) fail to fulfill their primary function - to accurately measure and account for the influence and reach of relationships between brands, platforms, and audience. The systems and...
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...
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...
Rising to the Top: Growth Hacking Your Career With Dirigible Architecture
Part One in Our 4 Part Series - An Introduction to Dirigible Architecture If you think about the standard approach to elevating your position; the good ole hard work corporate ladder model, it completely relies on years of effort and energy with little to no...
The Art of Speaking Visually: How Images Drive Action
The way we communicate has changed forever. Talk is cheap and a picture is worth a thousand words right? Yet how many in your organization are visually conversant in the new language? How many on your team are digitally literate? How many are at least visually...
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...
The 3 Biggest Time Wasters at Work & How to Stop Them
There is a lot of wasted time at work. There are 3 pink elephants in the room when it comes to wasted time at work. They’re email, meetings and distractions. They’re slowing you down and costing you a fortune of up to 40% of your work day, or 3.2 hrs per day per...
The 6 Second Business Strategy – How To Avoid Gimmicks That Sound Like Fitness Scams
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
How The 80/20 Addiction Leads to Business Failures
Where Hustle and Hype Meet – 5 Steps to Build Your Operational Integrity
Episode 14: The 10 Perils of Platforms and 11 Survival Tips to Overcome Them
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