How to Be a Better Mentor to Others
“Your most important role as a mentor is to help the mentee find what’s missing.”
Category: Career Growth
Five Questions to Ask Your Customers That Reveal Your Narrative
“The strategic North Star guiding every great startup is a story — not about its team or its products, but about its customer. If that sounds trite, remember th...
The Most Successful Brands Focus on Users Instead of Buyers
“Purchase brands focus on the ‘moments of truth’ that happen before the transaction, such as researching, shopping, and buying the product. By contrast, usage b...
Don’t Let “Work” Get In The Way Of Your Work
Valuable work doesn’t look like “work.”
What Nobody Tells You About Finding Mentors
“We need to stop telling them, ‘Get a mentor and you will excel,’ Instead we need to tell them, ‘Excel and you will get a mentor.’”
This Should Be Posted on the Wall of Every Business
“Never try to be cool. Only try to be good.”
To Produce Great Work, You Must Consume Great Work
“The consumers’ philosophy is simple: if you want to increase the quality of your work — your output — you must increase the level of your inputs.”
How Cancelling Everyone’s Student Debt Could Help the Economy
“If the government were to forgive all the student debt it owns (which makes up more than 90 percent of all outstanding student debt), and bought out all privat...
Craftsmanship Is the Alternative to the Four-Hour Work Week
“To think of a business as a series of hacks and transactional relationships, you’ll never amass the expertise that your future self and future businesses need ...
Your Systems Are More Important Than Your Goals
“Goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.”