Victor Frankl’s thesis about life is that negative turns in a person’s life are always bearable if they have a context, if they’re in a story framework. This is also true about your career. Take some time and think through the positive and negative turns of your career journey. You’ll be able to pull out some patterns that can help inform what you should do in the future and what you shouldn’t do in the future.
How often do you step back and take a breath to review? How aware are you of your own journey here?
Category: Culture
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Make Sense of Negative Turns
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Revenue Quality
Not all revenue is created equal and not all money is as green.
Business is not about how much you make, it’s about how much you keep.
There are times that you face a realistic situation where you drop lower topline and increase earnings below the line. Just takes knowing your numbers enough to see the path.
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First Principles
Employee asking me about their internet being out for a chunk of Monday. Worried they’re going to get docked pay.
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First question I had: Aren’t you salaried?
Them: Yes.
Me: I don’t know why that matters then.
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Best Future Skill
The biggest predictor of success in the future of every organization will be delegation. With the advent of agents, even if your over or under on if agents with action will be delivered within 2 years, the ability for every entry level employee 10x their work by delegating tasks to agents is a huge benefit driver.
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Markets Both Benefit and Constrain
Years ago I was in a conversation with someone who was asking some curious, albeit weighted questions around the subject of using the Office365 product suite over GSuite. It was a decision made in this organization prior to my coming on-board, but honestly I felt it was a good decision and
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Net Worth Isn’t Cash
Let’s talk about wealth for a minute. There has been talk about the rich paying their fair share. Someone made a comment to me the other day that anyone who is a billionaire should be able to pay some part of that into taxes. I had to explain why it’s not that simple. To be clear of my cards, i’m currently in an income level that places me in the top
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Simple Explanations Show Understanding
Something I’ve noticed in some conversations is when a person tells me something is complex and difficult to explain it has become a red flag for me. I try to go by the napkin rule. If I can’t draw it out on a diner napkin over lunch with someone then it’s possible I don’t really understand the first principles of the subject.
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Free Markets Prove Better
Last year there was a proposal to set pricing limits on food. Here’s the thing, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a grocery buyer negotiate pricing but it’s down to the 100th of a cent at times. Why? Scale. If you’r off on a purchase of a million+ watermellons that 100th of a cent can erode margins by a lot.
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Best Time to Build a Business is Now
Had a conversation with a friend the other day who works for a municipality. There is a software that they use, basically every county uses it. There’s one vendor for everyone. It’s a monopoly. Support is bad (days for the initial response), product is bad (still requiring windows 10 and haven’t began testing for deployment in windows 11), and prices are high (no market competition = high prices). The issue is anytime a new company begins to disrupt they buy them.
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The Journey So Far
Been talking about work and life. Wanted to present some stages for how this worked for me.
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College -> Worked full time while schooling full time. Worked flexible jobs so I could do school. I felt busy (laughable now). Developed several skills for post college career. Helped start a non-profit during this time that I worked in alongside my career for the next 12 years. Got my first 8-5 job 3 days after graduation due to work I was already doing and relationships I had formed.