Category: Strategy
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#70: What’s the most valuable thing I learned today?
Ever wonder how some people can consistently accomplish so much more than others? I know I have. Take Elon Musk for example. He goes from one success to another in completely separate industries, while hardly missing a beat. He’s revolutionized banking, clean energy, robotics, electric cars, space exploration, AI, brain interfaces, and more. And yet,…
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#69: What would Eisenhower do?
I’m going to share a technique that made a huge difference in my life by saving me time, effort, and energy consistently. The first time I came across this technique was in “The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey who in turn was inspired by Dwight D. Eisenhower, our 34th President…
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#68: Is it time to ‘refactor’ our business again?
Like a successful business, most successful software products develop over a period of time. After many rounds of feature enhancements, the code behind the scenes can look a bit of a mess. So, every so often the software developer will ‘refactor’ – whilst ensuring the functionality is maintained, they will clean up the code, simplifying…
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#67: Do we actually have any idea what’s REALLY important to our customers?
I spent years on the road as a seminar speaker. I’d speak 3 – 5 times a week. And sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. One of my tools of trade back then was a little lapel mic which ran off AAA batteries. I always choose Duracell batteries because they promised a longer life.…
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#66: What’s our ‘Bullet Hole Fallacy’?
Hal Varian, Chief Economist of Google declares: “The ability to take data – to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it – is going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades.” Wow. There’s so much being said in that one…