“What is measured, improves,” is an old piece of business wisdom. If you keep track of something, whether it is grades, weight, income or efficiency it usually will get better. This is a good piece of advice, but I feel it’s only half the story. If you end up measuring the wrong things, they might […]
Be Ambitious With Goals, Not Deadlines
Every once in awhile I get an email from someone who is starting a new blog. This person is enthusiastic to get started and is hoping to become the next Darren Rowse or Steve Pavlina. In sending a few emails back and forth, however, I find that almost everyone underestimates how long it will take. […]
Great Ideas are Valuable, But Extremely Hard to Recognize
Recently, Steve Pavlina wrote an article entitle, The Value of Ideas. In the article, he talks about how ideas are cheap, the real work comes in implementation. This is an area I wholeheartedly agree with, as for every 100 “idea-people” there might only be one or two that can actually bring things into reality. Ideas […]
Be Unique, Be an Uber-Geek
Two weeks ago I wrote about the virtue of being a geek. I explained that it wasn’t enough to be good at something, or be passionate about it. What really mattered was finding those peculiar areas that you were good at, interested in and most people didn’t care about. These are the areas where competition […]
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