One of my favorite things about interacting with new prospects and clients is the Initial Discovery Session where you ask really smart questions in order uncover the business opportunities you’re going to work on together and the details of what will constitute a successful outcome of your project. I shared a few of my favorite […]
I’ve written in the past about taking advice. I’ve even written about leaving advice. But, who do you go to when you need advice? I suppose it all depends on the type of advice you’re looking for, right? If you need advice on running your business you might ask someone with a different background than […]
Stop talking. When you don’t know what to say — just say nothing. When you run out of things to say or have reached an impasse in the negotiations, nothing says you have to keep talking. In these times where personal philosophies and political beliefs have seemed to divide even those closest of friends and […]
When you go to the store to buy new light bulbs, you don’t just pick them up out of a bulk bin of glass orbs, right? Of course not, they are logical sorted and packaged on shelves so you know which kind of bulbs you’re buying and for what use they are intended. You need […]
Many creative people are “Drivers”, a personality type that is known for not suffering fools and getting things done. They don’t waste time, have no interest in small talk, and are all about the productivity. But what about those times when you can’t sit behind the wheel — can you be a happy passenger? The […]
In ancient Greece, those who needed great insight into their lives or wanted to know what the god had in store for them would travel to a sacred site in in the mountains and venture into the caverns to find a priestess of the god Apollo. This priestess sat above a chasm in the earth […]
You may have just finished working on a project that you’re especially proud of. You devoted a lot of time, energy, and creativity into completing this new “thing” that you’ve brought into reality, but no one knows about it because you think it would be unseemly to brag about your accomplishment — so you’re keeping […]
