Breakthrough ideas don’t come from just expanding your mind!
Real learning starts when you don’t have an answer right away, but need some time to reflect, process and translate now back to your reality… most of the time it’s not easy, but the results will therefor be all the more gratifying!
There’s nothing as effective as the surprise punch in the face
I love the times when I’m just mindlessly scrolling my social media or in this case youtube and the unexpected happens…
Your competitors may turn out to be your best sales agents!
Yesterday I was walking in town when a flower vendor approached me to buy flowers from him. Automatically I said no and walked on… then my mind caught up and I realised that actually, I would have loved to buy some flowers… so when the next flower vendor approached me he made a sale.
The most important word in the vocabulary of an entrepreneur is “no”
It is tempting to think of busyness as growth, but busyness can also be a symptom of not having a clear strategy and not knowing when to say no.
2021 should not be about starting over
Don’t fear doing the things and taking on the projects you’re not supposed to… in the end, “supposed to” only fits with one narrative for your destiny!
We could all learn from McKinsey’s ballsiness…
In emerging markets founders tend to hedge their bets in running several ventures in parallel. As a consequence, they never go all in as there is always one of the ventures which seems to be showing enough potential to just keep ploughing through…
The continuous wonder of no idea being unique…
Every founder has their vision, their focus, their resources and constraints… there is no one path to success!
Challenge solved doesn’t equal challenge completed!
Challenge “solved” doesn’t equal challenge “completed”… just because it’s no longer a challenge, that doesn’t mean it’s off our plate before we complete on the delivery and execution!
It all depends on your perspective…
It’s only natural that we make ourselves the center of our universe… after all, we only have one pair of eyes we can see the world through. It is good though to sometimes realise our perspective is just what it is: one perspective.
You’re not a CEO unless you decide to be…
The beauty of being the owner of your own business it that you get to decide what a business owner and entrepreneur looks like… for you.