Author: Barrett Brooks

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Learn. Learn everything you can. Read books. Take courses. Find mentors and teachers. Write about what you learn. Document it well. Reflect on it. Internalize…

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Let’s say you make a product that costs the customer $.99 to buy. Your cost to make the product was $.49. Your gross profit on…

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If it costs $1.00 to make and market a product, and you sell the product for $.99, you have a problem. That seems obvious. What’s…

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There are many obstacles to running a remote team…. just as there are many advantages. But the single most important factor in keeping the team…

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One short, simple question. And yet, it catches people so off guard. It’s not normal to hear an open-ended question about what’s most interesting to…

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In 2015, Netflix announced an unlimited maternity and paternity leave policy within twelve months of a baby’s birth. And yet there were detractors (there always…

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Intentional parenting leads to more well-adjusted children and more fulfilled parents. The biggest obstacle to intentional parenting, in many cases, is the conflict between work…

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Plenty of leaders lead teams and organizations effectively while also maintaining poor personal habits… And yet there is a growing interest in the research world…

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Somewhere deep inside of you is a wealth of talent, just waiting to be developed. With a strong set of values, a few core beliefs…

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Individual contributors are the people in your organization (you?) on the front lines. They’re the ones doing the heavy lifting, the direct customer interaction, and…