Solopreneurship
Expertise does involve supplying answers, eventually, but mainly expertise is about asking the right questions, first, and then offering a few answers after the truth surfaces.
Expertise is primarily about curiosity, and curiosity requires many, many questions. And each question you ask narrows the field of enquiry until the answer just lands on you... See more
Expertise is primarily about curiosity, and curiosity requires many, many questions. And each question you ask narrows the field of enquiry until the answer just lands on you... See more
Great Questions, Not Answers, Are The Best Way To Deliver Strategy
our goal with such a prospect is to inspire him to form the intent to solve his problem; it is not to inspire him to hire us. At this stage, hiring us is but a possible future consequence of his deciding to take action.
Blair Enns • The Win Without Pitching Manifesto
“How do we move forward and reinvent ourselves when our very selves have been so shaken? For starters, we must reframe the questions, abandoning the conventional career-advice queries—“Who am I?”—in favor of more open-ended alternatives—“Among the many possible selves that I might become, which is most intriguing to me now? Which is easiest to test... See more
Narrative Aircover & Compound Narrative
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
The point of work is doing the labor, not delegating it away. When we focus excessively on productivity, when our biggest concern is on how to “scale ourselves,” we miss the point of work—and, really, life—which is to find meaning in the daily tasks that consume our time.
You must devote yourself to the cause of your life.
If you were magically given 10,000 hours to be amazing at something, what would it be?