AS I SEE IT: Volume 1: Business

After reading the brilliant book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown I grew a pair of mammoth balls and stopped attending meetings I deemed worthless altogether.

purpose and critical result.

We Wait Too Long to Train Our Leaders

To watch a 2.0er come waltzing through the door and cozily settle into an environment created by a 1.0er and become the new Golden Child is often a really bitter pill to swallow and can often lead to the misperception that the 1.0er has lost their luster and value as an employee. While that may not be wholly true, it often creates bitterness and te

Worse, is that the “hot chick with a big rack” who’s doing an okay job is always given deference in a misogynist-tinged C-suite, while the aging or not-as-hot EA who is absolutely murdering it behind the scenes and likely covering for the lackluster efforts of the “hot chick” has to fight for the recognition, compensation, and respect they deserve

I’m a huge believer that you should approach your role not as a “worker” but as the CEO of your own small business.

Fall victim to worker mentality and you'll continue just collecting the check, annoying the fuck out of the passionate ones, and doing yourself and your professional development a grave disservice, quite publicly, I might add.

Often, we forget that there is a human being on the subject end of the CEO title.

Okay, let’s nip this shit in the bud, right now. There is no, true, work/life balance. It doesn’t exist, people. The phrase du jour is work/life integration. (Thanks, Jeff Bezos.) In today’s work environment, it’s nearly impossible to find a balance between work and your personal life without some sort of overlap.