Taking action consistently outweighs merely having the potential to act. The speaker reflects on how they once equated doing well in school with succeeding in life, only to learn that real-world success comes from initiative and execution, not just intelligence or talent. Through life experiences, they discovered that waiting for the perfect moment or ideal … Read more
Ideas + Capital + Talent = enduring great business. Ideas are everywhere, nothing special about an idea. Capital is plentiful for those who have proven themselves. Today there is so much capital sloshing around looking for moderate returns. The Scarce Resource… Talent, true talent… is rare. Talent isn’t potential. Talent is systematic repeated high performance … Read more
The path of the company and the person that takes no little bets, never risks an error, never risks a mistake… is to slowly die and then risk everything on one big “Hail Mary” pass. What’s the worst life strategy for a person? and also for a company? Complacency. Rely on what has always worked. … Read more
This is a summary of the article on the HBR blog: “If You Want to Use Your Phone Less, First Figure Out Why” by Marcello Russo, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Gabriele Morandin 4 Common Reasons People want to Use their Phone less Many of us would like to spend less time attached to our phones. But to … Read more
Did Netflix kill Blockbuster? or did Blockbuster forget about customers? Did Amazon kill Sears? or did Sears forget about customers? One of my early business mentors told me “you have to be half the price or triple the value for someone to switch from their current provider”. People don’t switch from Sears to Amazon for … Read more
Mark Fritz is a regular Vistage speaker who is on a mission to end micromanagement around the world. He is passionate about helping leaders create highly engaged organisations where every employee treats the business as if it were their own. One of my favourite examples from Mark is his question: “why does nobody ever wash … Read more
I’ve published two videos this week. Both of these videos were inspired by Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders from last week. (The text of the letter is available below). 2 Jeff Bezos Inspired Videos The first: why do we fail to achieve our goals? The second: how do we create high standards? if you are … Read more
This is a guest post from Ecatherine Matnadze, who serves as the Vistage Spain In-house Leadership Coach – working with me and the leadership team in clarifying goals and staying disciplined in our actions. When a change plan fails, it is more often than not due to the human dynamics inside the organisation. It doesn’t … Read more
This video is about Innovation and the 3 types of innovation as described by Ferran Adrià, the world’s best chef. He tells us that there are 3 levels of innovation… and that it is type 3 innovation that really moves humanity through a step change in progress. Read more on Innovation on the blog: 4 … Read more
“You can take my life, but you cannot take my freedom” William Wallace (through the mouth of Mel Gibson) Freedom sounds like good stuff. Generations have fought and died to allow us the individual freedom that we enjoy today. Freedom is not the freedom from something, it is the freedom to choose to do or not … Read more