#0380 Startup V Mature
Hunters and gatherers would stockpile food to get them through the winter.Bears fatten up before hibernation. As a business there are two things you should have fattened up to cope with the inevitable business winters….
Hunters and gatherers would stockpile food to get them through the winter.Bears fatten up before hibernation. As a business there are two things you should have fattened up to cope with the inevitable business winters….
“That’s what you remembered!” In a room full of workshop participants, the morning of day two I asked what each person had took away from the day before. No real surprise but everyones take was…
Our dog Eddie does not understand personal space. Right there, all day, every.single.day. He is not perfect, far from it but the joy he brings far outweighs the holes he digs in the lawn. The…
Artificial Intelligence too is biased. From the designers, the coders and the input feeds unconsciously enforcing their views on what is right and what is wrong. It will eloquently merge the collective and continue to…
Every week I have locked in a call with a couple of trusted comrades. During the call we share the ups and downs of the week. It is therapeutic, enlightening and motivating. Without a confidant…
Thanks to a long line of bald men in my family, I have been shaving what is left on my noggin. During the winter months I lose a lot of heat so I wear a…
“Then I’ll huff and I’ll puff…”“Please Sir I want some more?”“‘This porridge is just right!” I wager that you know exactly what children’s books these quotes come from. Not only that, you can probably imagine…
My Father would tuck me in super tight when I was 6 or so and sometimes I would claim that I could not get to sleep. He would say in his thick Southern Italian Australian…
Have you ever hung around someone with a strong and distinct characteristic that after just a little while you find yourself mimicking? Imagine a lifetime of picking up on all of these twitches, good or…
Is good communication more important than a good product or service? I would argue they are at least on par. A great product that no-one knows about is worthless.An amazing service that people do not…
Never have I ever met anyone responsible for revenue that says they are happy with the amount, quality and frequency of leads coming into their business. Not One. It is one of the great frustrations…
At the dinner table we were discussing my middle daughters major where they get to design a solution to help the environment. The conversation veered quickly toward utilising the waste of one product to reuse,…
An Olympic athlete will train for years sometimes for as little as a 10 second event. Are they all mad? Surely it can not all be about the win at the end? These legends in…
I find myself torn between the certainty of process and the unpredictability of innovation. Process will give you repeatable outcomes with the ability to refine and improve small components which compound for a better result….
Further validation will not help. If you are stuck on something, affirmation from others is not going to move you forward. Seek a different perspective. Someone in a different industry, role or world view. Someone…
Why can Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and many others head several billion dollar companies whilst many of us struggle to get one thing ticked off our to-do list a day? It would be…
If I were to guarantee you 10 Million dollars in cash today no strings attached would you take it? Probably yes right. If I were to guarantee you 10 Mill today but in exchange you…
Hands up if you have ever grabbed a kebab from the nearest food truck after a big night at the pub? There is a reason there is often one parked right next to these establishments….
We have one of those robot vacuum cleaners downstairs in our family home mainly to keep Eddie’s dog hair at bay. This however only surface cleans and we must still deep clean on occasion otherwise…
If you ask 3 of your closest friends to describe you, the responses will be deep, varied and most likely heart warming. Ask 50 random people on the street and those responses will vary considerably,…