Category: Essays

Am I enough?
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When things are going well, it’s easy to wait on the other shoe to drop. “See, I knew I wasn’t doing enough,” I expect to…

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In his classic management book, Good to Great, Jim Collins shares an idea called a flywheel. That concept can help you and your company define…

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My wife was busy on that Saturday afternoon in 2014, so I pulled out my list of my friends in Atlanta and sent a flurry…

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19% of remote workers say that loneliness is their #1 struggle with working remotely according to Buffer and company’s 2019 State of Remote Work report….

Spilled ice cream - the ultimate mistake
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March 1, 2018. I won’t forget that date any time soon because it was the day I made my first major mistake as COO… and…

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As a team grows from the early stages when everything feels fun and crazy into a more mature phase of predictable growth, team structure has…

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Note: This is a post I originally wrote for Fizzle, where they teach aspiring entrepreneurs how to build small businesses that matter. Although you may not…

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J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He spent countless hours building the legend of Middle Earth and the history of…

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In 1837, at the age of 51, Horace Mann accepted an appointment as the secretary of the Massachussetts Board of Education, becoming the the first secretary…

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In 1772, all tea from the East India Trading Company was required to be delivered to the United Kingdom and sold to traders through the…