Building a Business

Timing influences communication.

Talk about potential mistakes before they happen and people start looking for ways to prevent them.

Talk about actual mistakes after they happen and people start looking for reasons to defend their actions.

What do we need to be talking about now, so we can learn the lessons before we need them?

"Today might be the best chance you have to take action.

The longer you wait, the more deeply embedded you get in your current lifestyle. Your habits solidify. Your beliefs harden. You get comfortable.

It will never be easy, but it may also never be easier than it is right now."

“The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.”

Henry David Thoreau on the hard part:

“Simplify, simplify, simplify!”

"One way to stand out is to look for pockets of low competition.

Wake up early—less traffic, fewer people.

Go deeper or narrower in your field—less noise, more space.

People are drawn to where it is crowded. Look for the quiet spaces inside your areas of interest. Excellence often hides at the edges."

The most valuable skill isn't inspiration but the ability to work without it.

Mediocrity is invisible until passion shows up to expose it

Cultivate an environment of respectful disagreement.

Your longevity in business is determined by the amount of disagreement you can foster.

The highest functioning people and teams don't hide from disagreement—they encourage it. Respectful disagreement is an act of love that makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts.

When people feel safe to p

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a large team of B players.