When you have more than enough money, you have money affluence. With it, you can buy what you want, eat what you want, drive what you want, and travel where you want. But to have this unallocated money, or discretionary money, you probably need to spend a heck of a......
All-or-nothing thinking is exciting – we’ll launch a whole new product family all at once and take the market by storm! But it’s also dangerous – if we have one small hiccup, “all” turns into “nothing” in a heartbeat. When you take an all-or-nothing approach, it’s likely you’ll have far......
If you think you understand what your customers want, you don’t. If you’re developing a new product for new customers, you know less. If you’re developing a new technology for a new product for new customers, you know even less. If you think you know how much growth a new......
If you run a company, the most important thing you can control is how you allocate your resources. You can’t control how the people in your company will respond to input, but you can choose the projects they work on. You can’t control which features and functions your customers will......
If words and actions are different, believe the actions. If the words change over time, don’t put stock in the person delivering them. If a good friend doesn’t trust someone, neither should you. If the people above you don’t hold themselves accountable, yet they try to hold you accountable, shame......
If someone treats you badly, that’s on them. You did nothing wrong. When you do your best and your boss tells you otherwise, your boss is unskillful. If you make a mistake, own it. And if someone gives you crap about it, disown them. If someone is untruthful, hold them......
When best practices get old, they turn into ruts of old practice. No, it doesn’t make sense to keep doing it this way, but we’ve done it this way in the past, we’ve been successful, and we’re going to do it like we did last time. You can misuse old......
If your products were bad for the environment, what would you do? If your best products were the worst for the environment, what would you do? If you knew your products hurt the people that use them, what would you do? If you knew your sales would be reduced if......
If you have to tell people what to do, you didn’t teach them to think for themselves. If you know one of your team members has something to say but they don’t say it, it’s because you didn’t create an environment where they feel safe. If your new hire doesn’t......
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