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Apr 24, 2021

Learning to handle feedback better with this one trick

Taking negative feedback from a coach, manager, mentor, or friend is never easy, but its necessary if you want to learn and grow. Often times your first reaction can be to move into a defensive posture, to reject the information and to act negatively towards it. …

Leadership

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Learning to handle feedback better with this one trick
Learning to handle feedback better with this one trick
Leadership

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Apr 23, 2021

The most important asset for most companies is the CEO

Most companies don’t have a major competitive advantage that protects their business. Most companies don’t operate in a monopoly, duopoly or oligopoly industry. So most companies are fighting tooth and nail everyday to be successful without any advantage. So the CEO of the average company becomes the most important asset…

Leadership

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The most important asset for most companies is the CEO
The most important asset for most companies is the CEO
Leadership

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Feb 23, 2021

Investing without debt

It’s tempting to add leverage to your investments. To add a big mortgage to your property portfolio, or to use margin on your stocks. Some people find the lure of a personal loan enticing and want to use it build their wealth. I get it, if there is an opportunity…

Startup

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Investing without debt
Investing without debt
Startup

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Feb 21, 2021

Better decisions

As a leader your job is to make great decisions. Across the course of the day you’ll be tacking with customer issues, problems relating to your staff, you’ll be deciding on the direction of a project, and who to hire for the team. …

Management

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Better decisions
Better decisions
Management

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Feb 20, 2021

You might not need to hire A-players

Common advice when it comes to hiring is to only hire A-players. Don’t settle for less and make sure you hire the best in the world. If you do this then you will have a successful team, that’s what the advice says anyway. …

Leadership

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You might not need to hire A-players
You might not need to hire A-players
Leadership

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Feb 13, 2021

The most important thing for a leader to do — work on yourself

As a leader your job is drive your team, make them better, and deliver on your teams goals. The best way to do this is to keep working on yourself. The best leaders mix hard traits like toughness, drive, and conviction with soft characteristics like humility, unity, empathy and respect…

Startup

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The most important thing for a leader to do — work on yourself
The most important thing for a leader to do — work on yourself
Startup

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Feb 12, 2021

Investing along side trustworthy fanatical founders

With extra money to invest where should you put it? Well one place to put it is with trustworthy fanatical founders. These are business founders who a clearly fanatical about their business but are also consider extremely ethical and trustworthy in nature. Fanatical founders are passionate about their business, are…

Management

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Investing along side trustworthy fanatical founders
Investing along side trustworthy fanatical founders
Management

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Feb 11, 2021

The benefit of working with trustworthy people

Often times in life you’ll have to make a decision on who you want to work with. Maybe’s its a customer, a new boss, a coworker on a project. When making that decision it’s not often that we make the choice through the lens of trust. When deciding who to…

Management

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The benefit of working with trustworthy people
The benefit of working with trustworthy people
Management

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Feb 10, 2021

Succeeding by making less mistakes

In professional tennis the player that wins the match usually does so due to playing more winning shots than their opponent. In amateur tennis, the winner usually wins because they make less mistakes than their opponent. Often times in successful businesses and teams, making less mistakes than those around you can also lead to success. Successful businesses are those with less customer complaints than their competitors, they are teams with less hiring mistakes. Successful business are those with less internal employee conflict, and successful teams are those with less delivery issues. Making less mistakes can have huge long term impact and is much improve on then trying to get great at big wins.

Leadership

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Succeeding by making less mistakes
Succeeding by making less mistakes
Leadership

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Feb 9, 2021

The difference when you love it

In business you can have a job that you do for the money, or one that you do because you love it. When you love the job and the work it makes a massive difference. When you love it you put more care into your work. When you love it…

Leadership

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The difference when you love it
The difference when you love it
Leadership

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Chris Lacey

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