Most people think it’s about showing things and that “you know”. But who are we kidding? It’s most to get followers and do sales. It’s about paywalls, subscription or funding

So, the way music is framed is about art, enjoy, amusement, etc. And the way business is framed: profit product growth brand etc. The thing is, none of those are

Maybe nothing. I mean it. Maybe nothing at all. Ponder this question, though: What is the center for my business and how does it show? What’s it all about?

“You’re a follower.” Doesn’t sound quite “empowering”, right? So, why would you want to have followers?

Friend-of-the list and data science expert, Genevieve Hayes, got back to yesterday’s message with this old Dilbert comic: Leadership is a choice —and a hard one to take because it

You don’t empower people: employees, customers, trainees, interns… To empower them implies you can dis-empower them. That you can take any power, agency or determination they have from them. And

Not only whether you say please or not. It’s about how you frame (and reframe) the situations, the context, problems and even solutions. [Framing and reframing —NOT gaslighting.] It’s about

If leadership is not 100% accountable, it’s not leadership. It can be anything else but. It takes you to own the flaws, mistakes, failures and successes. Not only to yourself

Friend-of-the-list and fellow daily writer, Shweta send this message about “Not all days can be equally productive, and that’s OK.” Some thoughts about this are that also, doing nothing is

In short: when you have nothing, you try, fail and do whatever it takes to get things moving. That takes you to a place where things in the environment are

As an entrepreneur, business owner, solo consultant… do you work on the weekends?

If you want, you can. But here’s the thing, you need to understand this is your choice. If you can’t say no to work, or you need to be working

What are words / things in your industry that make you cringe? Number 1 for me this month: Storytelling. Let me know yours?

This way you’ll get quickly to the goal. HOWEVER… Getting quick and good enough to the wrong goal is worse than slow towards the right thing. Like the player here

Collaboration is about getting into the weeds, about messiness. While speed and efficiencies do help, getting faster to the wrong goal or executing flawlessly the wrong thing won’t move the

The problem is not scope creep, it’s not knowing how to: 1) limit scope. 2) get fine with good enough. 3) identify the right scope and timeline properly. When you

Author, data architect and fellow daily emailer, Andrew Jones, wrote back to “The thing about scope creep” with an awesome insight (bolding mine): “I’d add another one: saying no.I often

Have you ever thought of getting to learn an instrument? As an adult now, or even when you were a kid. (Bonus points if you thought of it for a

Can we think of business as music? Here’s what I mean: “Fill in the blank. Music is ______.” Now your turn. Business is ______.

On yday’s message the link in “Music is ____” was hidden and not clear (but clever(?)) So here it is to have more context, and clear up the message. 🙂