When you’re selling what everyone else is selling, it might give the impression you need to match the rest. 1 way to do that —actually, how the vast majority sees

“Super simple and basic, but it’s effective!Super busy stuff or a lot of unnecessary notes? NO!” That’s Kirk Hammett talking about one of Metallica’s most popular (and loved) songs. What

If you’re jumping from idea to idea, making all of them a priority as they show up, they’re not a priority. In fact, they might feel as emergencies, taking over

Jain. [German expression for Yes and No at the same time (Ja+Nein)] If you have this feeling that when you’re writing (daily), you’ll get to a point where you’ve said

“If someone is working more, they deserve more. That’s fair” [Overheard in a conversation.] That’s not necessarily true. It generalizes that more effort (aka work) is tied to more rewards.

Going into things and thinking there’s a point of no return, where you just need to keep going. That’s another definition for sunk costs. When you feel you’ve already invested

When you read that, did you feel a strong impulse to say “Hell, no!”? And you’re right. That’s a natural response to “being convinced”. Which brings us to… are you

You can choose to do one thing above other things. If you try to do many things at once, odds of not completing all of them rise. You need to

Today, this email comes from fellow daily emailer Tanya Moushi from Daily Inspire. It has such a resonance that I could not not share it with you.(Do go subscribe to

It’s aimed at the market. It’s directed towards your customers in the context of their alternatives (what they consider instead of your services/products). It’s not storytelling. It’s not messaging. It’s

That’s how Andrew Skotzko, from Product Leadership Daily, defines intuition. ???? When thinking of it, here’s a question that comes to mind: How can you get good at trusting your

“If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way.” Interview to Jerry Seinfeld – Harvard Business Review Following yesterday’s email about helping your client with what they want, not what

“Leaders are in charge of the future, and managers are in charge of the present.” Blair Enns Friend of the list, James Turner came up with this email about Managers

Here’s a question for you: If leading is a choice, can things and businesses be… Product-led? Sales-led? Marketing-led? Growth-led? Innovation-led? Experience-led? I’m curious about what you think. 🙂

Friend of the list and founder of Truly Human Hospitality replied to the Future and Present daily with this reel where she talks about managing and leading. Loving her POV,

Leadership is about vision and only people can have a vision of the future, not things or concepts. It makes the notion of [THING]-led business an oxymoron. Because, how could

Are you afraid of using sales/growth/product/growth-focused and so on, instead of [THING]-led? My perception is that whoever came up with this [THING]-led concept was afraid of using [THING]-focused. Because when

Using the wording of [THING]-led takes off the responsibility of whatever sleazy/unethical actions they might do. The decision-makers feel they’re off the hook. If it’s led by sales, sales is

“Don’t come to me with problems. I only want to hear solutions.” That’s part of friend-of-the-list Genevieve Hayes’ email about solving problems in isolation —and a generalized thinking framework in

Reading one of Ethan Garofolo’s daily emails, I bumped on this video by James Womack of the Lean Enterprise Institute. On it he argues that there’s too much leadership and