AS I SEE IT: Volume 1: Business

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.

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.

My grandmother used to say, “Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one and they’re mostly full of shit.” Man, do I miss her.

Business is a game. I actually see it as frighteningly analogous to professional football. I’ll explain.

Empower them correctly and you will have a PR team who will help you navigate deftly through the tricky waters of friendliness and approachability in your growing organization while keeping you just far enough above the line-of-fire that takes many CEOs out.

Still mostly male. Still mostly White. Still mostly (socially) clueless. But still really, really good at making the decisions that continue to move business and innovation forward and evolving the world in some way, every day.

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

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.

We Wait Too Long to Train Our Leaders