There is great power in being refined. We’re going to really break down what that means, and take an in-depth look at the process and the...

We do this exercise in our EOS meetings called Start/Stop. It’s a pretty simple concept: your team takes turns telling each other what they want the person to start doing and what they want them to stop doing. You sit there and you take it, because that’s the whole point. Someone on my team said they wanted me to start being more realistic, and I’ve been thinking about that. I know where it comes from because I’m a very optimistic person. I get excited about what’s possible,

Stephen Covey wrote about a concept in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that I’ve been thinking about differently lately. He called it the Time Management Matrix: a four-quadrant grid that sorts everything in your life by two criteria: urgency and importance. Quadrant one is urgent and important: the crises, the emergencies, the things that demand your attention right now or there will be consequences. Quadrant two is important but not urgent: the long-term investments

I had a conversation with a friend not long ago who just lost his job, and is overwhelmed by the thought of starting over. He shared with me that he didn’t know what he was going to do now, since he’s getting older. That made me think of Colonel Sanders. Bear with me, it’ll make sense in a minute. Most people know about KFC but not many know the real story of Harland Sanders. Before he changed the entire fast-food industry: he painted horse carriages at thirteen. He tried the