When Experience Betrays Us
Can we talk about expertise for a second? In fact, more specifically, I’d like to talk about the problem with expertise. There is some great research by Gary Klein, which he shares in his book The Power of Intuition. It’s ...
The Emails You Need to Sell Coaching
Are you starting to sell coaching services? In the last few weeks I’ve spoken to a couple of folks that are looking to sell coaching services. Additionally, I’ve discovered folks in the WordPress ecosystem that are adding coaching to what ...
Teaching Soft Skills: How to Develop Your Team
What are soft skills and why are they important? Few things are harder than teaching soft skills – because there are no simple curriculums or solutions. But I have a framework that helps. Before I introduce you to it, let’s ...
Focus on What You Do Best
What’s your one thing? Remember when I told you that success often meant taking a corner in someone’s mind? I called it taking a corner. But I didn’t exactly tell you how to do it, other than to focus on ...
How do you make decisions?
In business everyone has an opinion I spent more than ten years starting and building software companies. It was such a different time that it barely holds any resemblance to today’s environment of startups. But the one thing that hasn’t ...
The Power of Networking: Product Developers Take Note…
I saw this tweet today… If you’ve spent the last several years becoming an amazing product developer, first let me just say that you’re awesome. There are very few people on the planet (by percentage) that can make a computer ...
Becoming a Great Conversationalist
Most of us aren’t great at business conversations In a CNN poll run a few years ago, they asked people how well they could manage a business conversation. I’m sure that the people who responded (more than 3500 in a ...
Five Strategies to grow your online business
Want to grow your online business? If you talk to enough people today, when you want to grow your business, it almost sounds like there’s a single strategy—Facebook ads. That just doesn’t sound right, does it? But what do you ...
If you spend a year developing a WordPress theme, are you wasting your life?
This is an open letter to the developer who spent a year developing a WordPress theme and couldn’t sell it anywhere. An Open Letter to Chris Dear Chris, My name is Chris too. And that’s not the only thing we ...
New year planning: Four things to get right
When it comes to new year planning, most people make resolutions. Resolutions that frankly fail within the first few weeks of the new year. So if you want to do new year planning the right way, I suggest you steer ...