What Creative Pros Wish They Knew During Previous Decades Of Their Career
“The pressure to do things quickly or have success happen right away is ingrained in our culture of instant-gratification, but really your real life is so long....
Category: Career Growth
The Six Qualities Of Great Leaders
“How you do anything, is how you do everything. A good leader sets a vision, determines what needs to be done to achieve that vision, and executes until the end...
If You Don’t Keep Earning Your Title, It Expires
“By using a title without still doing the work, you fool yourself into thinking future success is assured. (‘This is who I am!’) That premature sense of satisfa...
6 Must-Reads About Pricing A Product
“Ask someone if they like a product. Then ask them if they like it at a price point, say $20. The whole conversation changes.”
17 Ideas for the Modern World of Work
“Leadership is for other people, it seems. Leadership is for someone who has unusual amounts of courage, insight or perhaps arrogance. Except that’s not true. T...
How to Avoid the Busy Trap
“Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you ...
8 Ways To Get People To Pay Attention To Your Work
Attention isn’t free. To get attention for our creations, products, or messages, we have to give our time, effort, and resources. I’ve kept this in mind as I’ve...
Why You Need to Kill Projects Before They Kill You
“The earlier your company can identify, avoid, and dispose of Dead Snakes, the faster you’ll be able to build new products or features your customer actually wa...
How To Become The Best In The World At What You Do
“With a few tweaks, you’ll quickly drop through a wormhole placing you in the top 5–10 percent in your field. The challenge then becomes to move from there to t...
Career Advice For A 40-Year-Old From A 60-Year-Old
“Work is a team sport. You are not going to reach your objectives unless you help other people reach their objectives. Make time to make other people successful...