15 October 2023 Newsletter
“Urgency gets more people to buy. Scarcity gets people to pay more.”
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a good week back with a workshop and several meetings.
Here’s a growth fact I wrote in this newsletter ten years ago:
A $10m company growing at 25% will be 3.8 times the size in 6 years and have revenues of $145m in 12 years or 14.5 times the size. The beauty of compound growth!
Let’s get into it.
How To Work With (Almost) Anyone
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15 October 2023 Newsletter
“Urgency gets more people to buy. Scarcity gets people to pay more.”
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a good week back with a workshop and several meetings.
Here’s a growth fact I wrote in this newsletter ten years ago:
A $10m company growing at 25% will be 3.8 times the size in 6 years and have revenues of $145m in 12 years or 14.5 times the size. The beauty of compound growth!
Let’s get into it.
How To Work With (Almost) Anyone
At a [ Read More...
Two Critical Things To Consider When Restructuring Your Company
“I’m thinking of restructuring my company”. That’s one of the statements I often hear.
Restructuring the company typically involves significant changes in roles, responsibilities, and reporting lines to name a few. This can be met with resistance from employees who are comfortable with the existing structure and processes.
There are different organisational structure examples, some of them focused on Functions, others Read More...
Two Critical Things To Consider When Restructuring Your Company
“I’m thinking of restructuring my company”. That’s one of the statements I often hear.
Restructuring the company typically involves significant changes in roles, responsibilities, and reporting lines to name a few. This can be met with resistance from employees who are comfortable with the existing structure and processes.
There are different organisational structure examples, some of them focused on Functions, others Read More...
3 September 2023 Newsletter
“A good leader leads everyone the same, a great leader caters to different people based upon what they need.” John Maxwell
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been an extremely productive week with four x full day planning workshops and preparations for the new Onboarded for Managers book launch on October 1st.
I hope you’ve enjoyed a good week also.
If you haven’t yet had the chance, I’d encourage you to watch the Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary Read More...
3 September 2023 Newsletter
“A good leader leads everyone the same, a great leader caters to different people based upon what they need.” John Maxwell
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been an extremely productive week with four x full day planning workshops and preparations for the new Onboarded for Managers book launch on October 1st.
I hope you’ve enjoyed a good week also.
If you haven’t yet had the chance, I’d encourage you to watch the Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary Read More...
2 July 2023 Newsletter
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a great week with the next stage of the new Onboarded for Managers being complete and a great speaking event talking about Onboarded and launching a new version of the onboarded sprint plan which is now available on our website.
AI Is Killing The Old Web
I probably should have started writing this week’s Read More...
2 July 2023 Newsletter
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a great week with the next stage of the new Onboarded for Managers being complete and a great speaking event talking about Onboarded and launching a new version of the onboarded sprint plan which is now available on our website.
AI Is Killing The Old Web
I probably should have started writing this week’s Read More...
18 June 2023 Newsletter
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic. Peter F. Drucker
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been an interesting week, with 3 full day leadership workshops.
Here’s a quote from a friend I thought you’d enjoy.
Life takes discipline.
Diligence.
Determination.
Recognise that while sometimes you have to compromise, other times you don’t.
The temptation doesn’t come with a choice between right and Read More...
18 June 2023 Newsletter
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic. Peter F. Drucker
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been an interesting week, with 3 full day leadership workshops.
Here’s a quote from a friend I thought you’d enjoy.
Life takes discipline.
Diligence.
Determination.
Recognise that while sometimes you have to compromise, other times you don’t.
The temptation doesn’t come with a choice between right and Read More...
11 June 2023 Newsletter
Don’t aspire to build a $10m company. Aspire to create the systems that will build a $10m company.
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a really good week. It started with a father & son long weekend, spending time with my 12-year-old – an occasion I would encourage everyone to try.
Also, our team held a fantastic private event learning about cash for all our clients.
Then finally, I had a great quarterly workshop with a team in Sydney.
Don’t Worry About Read More...
11 June 2023 Newsletter
Don’t aspire to build a $10m company. Aspire to create the systems that will build a $10m company.
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a really good week. It started with a father & son long weekend, spending time with my 12-year-old – an occasion I would encourage everyone to try.
Also, our team held a fantastic private event learning about cash for all our clients.
Then finally, I had a great quarterly workshop with a team in Sydney.
Don’t Worry About Read More...
28 May 2023 Newsletter
“Every time a company doubles, it breaks half its systems and loses half its people.” Robert Glazer
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a productive week with four workshop days and sending my next book, “Onboarded for Managers”, to the book designer. I’m currently aiming for an August release.
Executive Burnout
In the past three days, we’ve seen two shock AFL resignations attributed to burnout: Richmond coach Damian Hardwick and Hawthorn chief Read More...
28 May 2023 Newsletter
“Every time a company doubles, it breaks half its systems and loses half its people.” Robert Glazer
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a productive week with four workshop days and sending my next book, “Onboarded for Managers”, to the book designer. I’m currently aiming for an August release.
Executive Burnout
In the past three days, we’ve seen two shock AFL resignations attributed to burnout: Richmond coach Damian Hardwick and Hawthorn chief Read More...
Using Job-To-Be-Done framework for innovation
As a business owner or leader, you’re constantly looking for ways to improve your products and services to better meet your customers’ needs.
But how do you know exactly what your customers need?
How do you go beyond surface-level wants to uncover the deeper motivations driving their behaviour?
That’s where the concept of “Job to be Done” (JTBD) comes in.
Job to be done is a term coined by Harvard Business School Read More...
Using Job-To-Be-Done framework for innovation
As a business owner or leader, you’re constantly looking for ways to improve your products and services to better meet your customers’ needs.
But how do you know exactly what your customers need?
How do you go beyond surface-level wants to uncover the deeper motivations driving their behaviour?
That’s where the concept of “Job to be Done” (JTBD) comes in.
Job to be done is a term coined by Harvard Business School Read More...
29 January 2023 Newsletter
“A $10M business is not a goal. It’s a symptom of a change you commit to making.”
Hope you’re Thriving!
I hope your New Year is off to a good start.
Over the holiday season, I’ve collected some of my favourite articles and podcasts from the year to share with you. Kind of like a best-of from 2022.
Couple this with my recommended reading list and hopefully, there is something of real interest and value for you each week.
I’m keeping them Read More...
29 January 2023 Newsletter
“A $10M business is not a goal. It’s a symptom of a change you commit to making.”
Hope you’re Thriving!
I hope your New Year is off to a good start.
Over the holiday season, I’ve collected some of my favourite articles and podcasts from the year to share with you. Kind of like a best-of from 2022.
Couple this with my recommended reading list and hopefully, there is something of real interest and value for you each week.
I’m keeping them Read More...
1 January 2023 Newsletter
“Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want” Naval Ravikant
Hope you’re Thriving!
I hope your New Year is off to a good start.
Over the holiday season, I’ve collected some of my favourite articles and podcasts from the year to share with you. Kind of like a best-of from 2022.
Couple this with my recommended reading list and hopefully, there is something of real interest and value for you each Read More...
1 January 2023 Newsletter
“Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want” Naval Ravikant
Hope you’re Thriving!
I hope your New Year is off to a good start.
Over the holiday season, I’ve collected some of my favourite articles and podcasts from the year to share with you. Kind of like a best-of from 2022.
Couple this with my recommended reading list and hopefully, there is something of real interest and value for you each Read More...
18 December 2022 Newsletter
“The key to a leader’s impact is sincerity. Before he can inspire with emotion he must be swayed by it himself. Before he can move their tears his own must flow. To convince them he must himself first believe.” Winston Churchill
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a busy week with several planning workshops and meetings to start closing out the year. And what a year it’s been!
The two significant events for me were expanding the team Evolution Partners and Read More...
18 December 2022 Newsletter
“The key to a leader’s impact is sincerity. Before he can inspire with emotion he must be swayed by it himself. Before he can move their tears his own must flow. To convince them he must himself first believe.” Winston Churchill
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a busy week with several planning workshops and meetings to start closing out the year. And what a year it’s been!
The two significant events for me were expanding the team Evolution Partners and Read More...
11 December 2022 Newsletter
In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.” Shane Parrish
Hope you’re Thriving!
Some weeks I sit down to write this newsletter, and there hasn’t been a lot happening. On other weeks I can’t squeeze it all in. This is one of those weeks.
So let’s do this.
Take The 10%
I saw someone talking this week about accepting the negative in people.
We can like perhaps 90% about a person, but Read More...
11 December 2022 Newsletter
In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.” Shane Parrish
Hope you’re Thriving!
Some weeks I sit down to write this newsletter, and there hasn’t been a lot happening. On other weeks I can’t squeeze it all in. This is one of those weeks.
So let’s do this.
Take The 10%
I saw someone talking this week about accepting the negative in people.
We can like perhaps 90% about a person, but Read More...
16 September 2022 Newsletter
“Effective organisations are unnatural. The natural state of organisations is bureaucracy and turf wars, and once deprived of effective leadership they revert to their natural state with shocking speed.” Paul Graham
Hope you’re Thriving! Things are in full swing for the new Onboarded book release here, with lots of interviews and media interest.
I also spoke to a group this week about my first book Made to Thrive and had an email from someone who said Read More...
16 September 2022 Newsletter
“Effective organisations are unnatural. The natural state of organisations is bureaucracy and turf wars, and once deprived of effective leadership they revert to their natural state with shocking speed.” Paul Graham
Hope you’re Thriving! Things are in full swing for the new Onboarded book release here, with lots of interviews and media interest.
I also spoke to a group this week about my first book Made to Thrive and had an email from someone who said Read More...
18 September 2022 Newsletter
“Be humble enough to accept the process.” Rafael Nadal
Hope you’re Thriving!
I love that quote from Rafael Nadal above – it’s so simple yet contains such wisdom. When you accept the process, you stop bargaining with it. You stop arguing about how the world should work and align yourself with how it actually works.
I remember a year or two ago, a client had an ah-ha moment where she said, “oh, the answer is just to follow the recipe Read More...
18 September 2022 Newsletter
“Be humble enough to accept the process.” Rafael Nadal
Hope you’re Thriving!
I love that quote from Rafael Nadal above – it’s so simple yet contains such wisdom. When you accept the process, you stop bargaining with it. You stop arguing about how the world should work and align yourself with how it actually works.
I remember a year or two ago, a client had an ah-ha moment where she said, “oh, the answer is just to follow the recipe Read More...
