The Power of No: Knowing When to Say No
Knowing when to say no is more powerful than saying yes to everything and trying to work it out later. How to protect your focus so you are ready for the opportunities that genuinely serve your business.
Essays, frameworks, and field notes from nearly four decades of building, backing, and selling businesses.
Knowing when to say no is more powerful than saying yes to everything and trying to work it out later. How to protect your focus so you are ready for the opportunities that genuinely serve your business.
Investors see through a polished story, and being honest about the real state of your business carries as much weight for you as for any pitch. The ways founders fool themselves, and how to stop.
The health of any business comes back to its numbers, and they are not something you simply hand to the accountant. The live, real-world figures every owner and leader needs at their fingertips.
A pitch deck is not just an investor document. It is a high-resolution view of where your business stands, and a tool to measure and manage its performance. The introduction to the Pitch Deck Perfect™ series.
In order to grow a successful business you need more than yourself, your laptop or mobile phone and a data connection.
The ability to reach your potential and do what you are actually meant to do starts with understanding your personal and professional strengths and weaknesses.
The challenge in both business and personal life is not how to become a success; equally it is not how to meet others’ definition of success.
Life is a process of experiences and those experiences are influenced by how we perceive. How we perceive what is happening at any given moment vs what is actually happening.
Doing more in less time is one of the holy grails of the business productivity industry. It can also have nice knock-on effects like profitability.
When believe you can, you can. Although you might not, or perhaps not immediately. Alternatively when you believe you can't, it changes nothing about the fact that you can.
Is your way of being in your business the way of an owner? Does what you do and how you do it help other people? Do you do the right thing, especially when no one's watching?