Ouch. Talk about a great introduction to piss people off. Truthfully, that’s not my intent. My intent is to get you to notice and make you aware of the words coming out of your mouth as a business leader.
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Just a short note to let you know that I’m also writing at www.stride.services/blog. The topics there are equally relevant for those looking for strategic coaching in building their business. You will find me now in both locations.
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This post explores a primary purpose of our move to Costa Rica, achieving financial freedom. Part of it was a state of mind. Part of it was re-orienting life in alignment with who I was and who I wanted to be. I have aligned the purpose of financial freedom to a new business, Stride, and am energized. You can do it too. Let’s figure it out.
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Do you ever wonder why you are working so hard and soooo busy but just aren’t changing the game in your life or business. The truth is that most of us are trying to push too many things forward and we end up pushing them an inch. Focus and prioritization can move initiatives forward a mile but we’re scare of “giving up” on the other activities. You much give up some things to progress in others. Focus on pushing your intention a mile and see the results.
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We are eight weeks living in Costa Rica and we are learning so much about ourselves everyday. We made a major life transition that has opened up amazing new possibilities. The story of Rogelio is both fun and a metaphor for exploring new possibilities.
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This post is about life trajectories and how to change them. I was inspired by a former business coach, Lex Sisney, who talked about achieving life and business goals through the lens of physics. That got me thinking about the variables that drive trajectories and how those can be changed (or at least having the intention to change.)
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This post explores the framework for achieving goals. For many of us goal oriented people, we love the idea of setting a goal (or multiple goals), but goal setting has a surprisingly risky underside. Without the right framework in place to execute on the plan necessary to achieve a goal, most never succeed. I am going to change that for you in this post with a structure you can apply to yourself as an individual or to your teams and company.
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For the last couple of years, I have felt like I was losing my ability to remember pretty much…. anything. I was terrible with names. I couldn’t remember some childhood events that should otherwise seem salient. The issue of Digital Dementia is a problem and as entrepreneurs, we want to show that we’re “on the pulse” of everything when in fact, we may be forgetting the things that really matter.
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I grew up on the 1980’s Bar Mitzvah circuit. It is where I acquired all of my best dance moves. A little limbo. A little YMCA. A little awkward slow dance to In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins or You’re the Inspiration by Chicago (I’m getting a little choked up just writing this). But growing up on the circuit didn’t prepare me for dancing in adulthood and I settled into the norm like most of us that dancing is way “out of my comfort zone.”
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This is a post about life trajectories, about flipping the script, about living with intention in partnership with my spouse. It is about entrepreneurship in the context of the life that you want to live. We are embarking on a new journey in the unknown, me and my co-pilot(s).
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We have to create the ripples and the ripples may turn into a wave and a wave may turn into a rapid and propel us down the river. If we aren't creating ripples often then there is no chance for a rapid to emerge. This is one example of acknowledging some truths in building velocity at your organization, the ability to move decisively to get a learning advantage.
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I'm seriously tired of business books. More frameworks. More process. More what I "should" do. More what the best companies are doing and I'm not. I still read them though because maybe, just maybe, there is gem in there that will trigger me to look at the world in a slightly different way. That's what happened a few weeks ago when I read Donald Miller's, Building a StoryBrand.
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For many years (and probably most of my life) I wrapped myself up in stories. Stories that questioned, "How well am I liked?", "What will people think of me?", "Am I a good entrepreneur?", "Will I meet my parents' expectations?", "Am I worthy to be in this role?", "Will I make enough money?", and on and on and on and on! Hundreds of times a day we experience things in the world and we create a story around it and very often, that story hinders our ability to live a full life. So how can we stop telling stories that cripple our potential and realize the possibilities of taking control of our intentions?
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What will you stop doing? It is so easy to accumulate (projects, relationships, investments) but so darn difficult to let go of things to free up space for those things that will really make a difference. In this post we talk through some of the reasons stopping or doing less of things is so hard and some filters you can use to overcome the angst.
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I was a venture capital investor for about five years prior to starting my first healthcare company. It gave me the opportunity, while I was still pretty young in my career, to learn the process of sourcing, investing in, and then owning an interest in a highly volatile start-up company. I had a mentor who said to me once, “You don’t know what you invested in until you get to the first board meeting”. He also said, “The easiest thing you’ll ever do in this business is write the check”. The point is that the work of the venture capitalist begins once they are an owner.
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This post re-imagines the business model canvas for digital health entrepreneurs. Based on my years of experience conceiving of disruptive models of innovation in healthcare, there were gaps in the traditional business model canvas I wanted to address.
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How many times has your company grappled with an identity crisis? You started the Company with a great idea and just got to work doing the work to bring a product or service to market. But over time, you realized that building a business is so much more than just selling what you have built. It's more than anything about selling the perception that your target customer has of who you are. That may be the hardest thing you ever do.
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Business is a battlefield. We need to think like warriors. There are many forces at work that want you to fail. The only way to protect against failure is to set your battlefield plan in advance, execute, and be prepared for agility as the theater changes real-time. I was talking to some friends recently about a business idea and the challenges with getting it off the ground. Rather than talking about the specific business, I put on a "warrior" hat and reflected as follows....
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We all think that servant leadership is the right model to empower a team and be a great leader. But not if you're using servant leadership to mask the story you are telling yourself about not being worthy in your CEO role. This post questions whether that servant leadership (or Chief Janitor) role is really something to be embraced if the CEO isn't prepared for it.
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I have been thinking a lot recently about company culture and the intentionality for which it should be built. Many start-ups begin their business with a strong intention to get a product to market quickly but fail to prioritize the necessary endurance that only the right company culture can sustain. There is never a bad time to work on organizational culture but it takes on different forms at different stages of company development.
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