Solopreneurship
A Thought Partner is someone who, through a practice of researching, reading, learning, asking questions, and writing, helps partners in developing their ideas , knowledge, and thinking.
Tom Critchlow • Narrative Strategy
In the process of researching, thinking through, and writing, we end up bringing ideas within the company and influencing its thinking. In some cases this is even done on purpose, not just as a side benefit of writing. Many of us become a kind of “Editor-in-chief of ideas circulating in the organization.”
Tom Critchlow • Narrative Strategy
If you were magically given 10,000 hours to be amazing at something, what would it be?
Erik Torenberg • Build Personal Moats
It could be a combination of expertise, relationships, sensibilities, and skills that you’ve accumulated over the years.
Erik Torenberg • Build Personal Moats
Write to Get in the Room
- Start With a Target : Want to work in sports marketing? Gaming? Consumer goods? Then start writing about it. Explore the industry, learn everything you can, and develop a strong, innovative perspective. Writing becomes your bridge—connecting you to the right people without needing to knock on doors.
- Go Deep and Different :
Zoe Scaman • Going Solo
Instead of calling out your clients flaws, call out your category’s failings, broken practices. Expertise isn’t about offering solutions, it’s about offering corrections.
a Learning Question is designed to encourage a full and meaningful enquiry. It’s more about provoking a process of learning than about finding an answer, but if you do seek an answer it must be one that incorporates your growing knowledge and personal perspective.... See more
Very often a Learning Question spawns a series of new questions which continue to mo