Sam was exhausted. Reading multiple articles about work/life balance they wondered how they got here. They were holding down three jobs and the stress was finally getting to them. Even to the point of putting them in the hospital for…
Rockstars are employees that have an almost superhuman drive and passion to learn and produce. They strive to be masters of their craft, whether that’s sales or software development, obsessing over the smallest details. They usually see a noticeable gap…
Working from home might become your new normal. Distributed work has grown in popularity over the years. More and more companies have either started with a distributed culture or at least a remote friendly one. In the midst of our…
In the middle of 2012 I was working on a PhD in Roman History. My research had started on a good foot, but I hit a major roadblock towards the end of the year. I wasn’t able to get permission…
I love to read business books. I’m weird that way. In the past 24 months I have read or reread over 100 plus. But lets be honest, not all of those books were worth reading in their entirety. So I…
“First Who, Then What: get the right people on the bus.” In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins introduces us to this idea. In other words, before you can figure out what you should be doing or where you…
Whenever I ask someone why their business has been so successful over the years, the most popular answer is “we got lucky.” It’s the same answer that I give when I am asked the same thing. We were just lucky.…
