Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot shares his thoughts on rare skills and the Trillion Dollar Venn Diagram Of Success (phrase credit to him). Dharmesh shares that “You probably have a few valuable skills right now. The question is, how do you turn those skills into a successful career or company? By combining skills…
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Scale or Small – which one?
Which one is better for your enterprise? Going for Scale or Staying small? If you run the best coffeeshop in town, do you focus on opening 100 more around the country or making the flagship coffeeshop the only one available and best in the world? If the decision to open 100 franchises of your coffeeshop,…
when you’re ready for fishing
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Heard it many times. Seems like a valid point of view right? That is if the man is ready to fish or wants to learn how to fish, then it becomes…
Draft to Publish
Today is Leap Day 2024. What ideas do you have saved for a future date to put them into action? What emails do you have sitting in your Drafts folder to send? Why are you sitting on the sidelines when you know you’re prepared for the game? Are you waiting for someone’s permission, approval, or…
Talent vs Skill
What is Talent and what is Skill? Are they the same or different? Talent is a natural ability to gain a skill or set of skills. Skill is the ability to complete a set of tasks well. Skills are learned and we get better at a craft by practicing intentionally over a period of time….
Empowering Curiosity
Building a company culture of curiosity in an organization takes small intentional steps. If a team member asks a question in a group, how is that question handled? Does the meeting organizer have an agenda and allocated time for questions? What is the team leader’s first response to a team member’s question? Is it a…
Can you learn how to ask better questions?
You certainly can. Asking questions is a skill. As with all skills, it can be learned and used everyday. If you want to ask better questions, you can learn them if you care deeply enough about it. There are many ways to become better at asking questions. One simple technique is by starting to ask…