Improve Your Business and Productivity

Too many leaders are preoccupied with growing their companies. In reality, they should be more concerned with finding the right size for their companies.

• Expanding prematurely often leads to downsizing, damaging the morale and productivity of those who stay. 
• Sustainability and...

• Make tiny decisions. It’s difficult to make and change serious decisions.
• Taking tiny solutions makes it hard to make big mistakes. And it’s easier to change them.

Trade the dream of overnight success for slow, measured growth. It’s hard, but you have to be patien...

• Less is a good thing. Embrace the idea of having less mass.
• The more massive an object, the more energy is required to change its direction.
• Large companies spend months and years to change something. Small companies can quickly change a business model and a product marketing...

Workaholics aren’t heroes. They don’t save the day, they just use it. The real hero is already home because he/she figured out a faster way to get things done.

To do great work, you need to feel that you’re making a difference. That you’re putting a meaningful dent in the universe. That you...

• Meetings are toxic. A one-hour meeting with ten people is actually a ten-hour meeting, not a one-hour meeting. You’re trading ten hours of productivity for one hour of meeting time.
• Good enough is fine. Find a solution that delivers ...

• Whenever you can, swap “Let’s think about it” for “Let’s decide on it.” Commit to making decisions.
• Don’t wait for the perfect solution. Decide and move forward.
• When is your product or service finished? When should you put it out on the market? And when is it safe to let peo...

The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use. 

Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea. And everyone’s got one of those.

Ideas are cheap and plentif...