Next time someone you hear “It’s not what you know, it’s whom you know,” tell them who said it they still don’t get it. More important than whom you know is your skill and ability to meet people. If you can meet people and make meaningful connections, then you can create for yourself the “whom you know.” It’s not what you know or whom you know. It’s how well you[…] Keep reading →

This summer’s #1 bestselling business book, Triggers, by Marshall Goldsmith, describes how not to worry about things not worth worrying about. I’m going to improve what he wrote. He created an acronym, AIWATT, which he rhymes with “say what,” short for the first six words of this question: Am I willing, at this time, to make the investment required to make a positive difference on this topic? If you are[…] Keep reading →

My colleague and friend, Tim Francis, whose online course I took and loved on moving a business online, told me about how simplifying his life is improving it. I sent him a link to my post, “Less, please,” which got him looking at his bookshelf. In a few minutes he went from describing the books’ value to questioning it to seeing value in the freedom of not books and putting[…] Keep reading →