People often talk about the income statement, but most people don’t really understand how to properly read a balance sheet. A balance sheet is a snapshot at a point in…
Jim Collins even wrote a book about this, Turning The Flywheel. Below is an excerpt from his book about Flywheel where he explains the Flywheels concept. Picture a huge, heavy…
Twitter. Amazon. Apple. Meta. Uber. Salesforce. Tesla. These are some of the most impactful and significant companies in the world. Each one is very different in a lot of ways,…
Business people bandy about words like strategy, innovation and culture all the time, but if you ask people to define what these words mean you’ll get very different answers. So when people repeat well-known phrases…
“Leaders Lead” was a rallying cry for teams I worked on as we took on leadership challenges like acquisitions, layoffs, and product launches. I said it often during the three…
The 80-20 Rule states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. A small number of actions get big results. Big in content marketing, it’s more like…
I often use it to make faster decisions, when its cumbersome to use frameworks Here's how it works: If you look at the root cause: Why decisions are difficult to…
Netflix is big. Your company is—most likely—not quite as big. So, when I tell you that Netflix uses A/B testing in numerous ways to improve their service and enhance their…
If you've ever learned to play a sport or a musical instrument growing up, you've probably heard the phrase, “practice makes perfect.” As kids, we're often conditioned to think that…
“It's not like the Olympics. You don't get any extra points for the fact that something's very hard to do” Big features are sexy, but low effort features with high…