At 16, John D. Rockefeller entered the business world as a bookkeeper with Hewitt and Tuttle, a produce brokerage firm in Cleveland, Ohio. Two years later, the young man fought with the firm...
How big should your business be to make a good living? How many customers should you have before you can quit your full-time job?
For centuries, entrepreneurs wanted to create something that could be sold to the maximum number of people. This kind of thinking is outdated because no one has an...
In the last six months, we transitioned from an effort economy to a result economy.
We stopped measuring the time spent at the office, and we started to measure results. For a long time, corporations asked their staff to show up at 8 and leave at 5. This pandemic shifted businesses'...
COVID-19 is offering business leaders a challenge. How can we keep our customers and employees safe?
Most organizations are failing to do either one of them. However, some organizations are protecting their employees more than their customers, and they will suffer in the long run. They want...
Follow your passion sounds easy, but it is pointless advice.
Instead of telling people to follow their passion, we should tell them to do something worth sharing. Some passions are not worth chasing or sharing. Nobody wants to tell you to do work worth sharing because following your passion...
He never got credit for it, but the ideas of startup started with this man.
At 16, John D. Rockefeller entered the business world as a bookkeeper with Hewitt and Tuttle, a produce brokerage firm in Cleveland, Ohio. Two years later, the young man fought with the firm...
An overweight exterminator wanted to enlist in the Navy SEALs. Recruiters laughed him off the phone. He was an unhappy man who had a daily routine consisting of two hamburgers, a large milkshake, a box of donuts, and hours of watching TV.
If he wanted to enlist in the Navy...
If you ask people what they want, you will get Kim Kardashian to run the world and crown James Harden as the best basketball player ever.
People see the world differently but similarly at the same time. They might argue that no one likes Kim Kardashian, but 300 million people follow her on...
If I ask you to take a week off and write all the industries that need to be disrupted. What would you write?
The biggest problem I have with the word disruption is that most people think about it as an entrepreneurship problem. I argue that every business disruption started with personal...
According to the Google algorithm, I should not stop writing this post until I reach 1500–2500 words, but I won’t waste your time or energy reading words meant to trick the algorithm but not add value to your life.
Google's algorithm destroyed creativity because people stopped writing...