The Crux

Every mountain has its crux – that make-or-break moment where success or failure hangs in the balance. Identifying your crux is the difference between breakthroughs and breakdowns in business and life. Richard Rumelt explains in “The Crux” that we...

Focus: The art of saying ‘No’

The entrepreneurial mind is a bustling marketplace of ideas, opportunities, and tasks. It can be exhilarating, but it can also be paralyzing. The secret to finding focus isn’t in deciding what to do. It’s in choosing what to say no to. As Steve Jobs...

Manage the seasons

In nature, seasons dictate activity and focus. Why do we forget this in business? Just as circadian rhythms affect our daily performance, seasonal rhythms impact our yearly productivity. Farmers understand this. They rotate crops and let fields rest. Why? A study in...

Strategy: Compass or checklist?

Strategy. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot in business. But what does it mean? Is it just a fancy term for a to-do list on steroids? The author Steve Blank learned the hard way that strategy is not a series of tasks to be checked off. It’s a...

Good enough

“Perfect is the enemy of good.” It’s a phrase we’ve all heard, a warning against getting so caught up in pursuing perfection that we fail to make progress. But what about the flip side? What about the danger of settling for “good...