Startup Culture Shock: Is Startup Life Life?
So I think somebody struck a nerve. So what do you think of this tip to save money: Fire people who are not workaholics. Come on folks, this is startup life, it’s not a game. Don’t work at a startup…
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Choose Your Own World View. Pick One.
Sometime around the middle of last week I published the following quote from Walt Disney: A man should never neglect his family for business Somebody who read that quote followed up by asking me: Yes, it’s possible, but you need to apply common sense too, no? That comment started me thinking. And I ended up … Continue reading Choose Your Own World View. Pick One.
Compassion Should Be Universal
I’ve posted about the Charter for Compassion before. In this post about a year ago, I said: Do you want to help solve one of the world’s great problems? This has to be as important as clean energy: religious fundamentalism turning into violence and hatred. The darker side of humanity seems at its worst when … Continue reading Compassion Should Be Universal
5 Ways to Break Up a Bad Office Work Day
It’s one of those days. Maybe you have technical problems, or a project that isn’t going well, you couldn’t sleep last night, you’ve run into a writer’s block or thinker’s block or city block. Maybe you just lost a client. Or learned about a powerful new competitor. Or maybe it’s simply just a bad day. It … Continue reading 5 Ways to Break Up a Bad Office Work Day
Why I’ll Never Retire
Ugh, baby boomers, retirement, selling the business … ouch. Strikes me like “lions, tigers, and bears,” in the Wizard of Oz. Scary. I’m 61. It was my choice to change my job more than two years ago, so that now instead of managing my company with 45 employees I’m writing, speaking, blogging, and teaching. And … Continue reading Why I’ll Never Retire
10 Tips for Saving Your Life From Your Business
Your business or your life? The nagging question comes up a lot. Recently I saw this startling statement: Maximizing your chance for success means sacrificing health and family. That was in this post by Jason Cohen on VentureBeat. He’s serious. He quotes Mark Cuban and one other successful entrepreneur. He says you can’t get it … Continue reading 10 Tips for Saving Your Life From Your Business
Let He Who is WITH Sin Cast the First Blog
This is Monday of the first of two holiday weeks. This is a good time to pull back a bit, reflect on things from a different perspective. It’s really good that our various religions, cultures, and traditions remind us, every once in a while, to slow down and think. Especially this year, which has been … Continue reading Let He Who is WITH Sin Cast the First Blog
Holidays Part 2: Having a Life in the Meantime
In case you’re wondering, my post here yesterday was also subtitled Holidays Part 1. (I did that in invisible ink, so you wouldn’t see it there. But it was.) For part 2, keeping on with my holiday theme of moving back a bit from business, reflecting on what’s really important in life (even if just for a … Continue reading Holidays Part 2: Having a Life in the Meantime
Research Agrees: Time is the Scarcest Resource.
I was going to do another strategy piece this morning, in keeping with the time for planning theme I’d thought I was doing for this week. But no. We can do business strategy next year. Instead, for this last work day of this long and less-than-stellar year, let’s please enjoy, now, this excellent new research … Continue reading Research Agrees: Time is the Scarcest Resource.
Your Business is No Excuse for Being an A**hole
To be honest, I thought it was a joke; irony, perhaps, or sarcasm. But no, to my surprise, I clicked on Love Your Business More Than Your Family, a column on entrepreneur.com, and he’s serious. Author George Cloutier says: Your cell phone is for keeping in touch with clients and sales managers in the field, … Continue reading Your Business is No Excuse for Being an A**hole
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