What's your definition of an A Player?
One year ago, I wrote a quick blog post on “What’s your definition of an A Player”. It was just a few sentences. Definition of an A Player: a candidate who has at least a 90 percent chance of achieving a set of outcomes that only 10 percent of possible candidates could achieve. Who cares […]
Recent Grad? 5 Tips for Jumpstarting Your Job Hunt
June is an exciting but nerve-racking time for many graduating seniors. Recent graduates experience all sorts of emotions when approaching graduation day and the following weeks and months after. First, there is the “Woo hoo! I never have to take a final exam ever again!” Then, there is the “Wait, what am I supposed to […]
Ten Rules For Starting a Business
Today’s post was written by thinkspace member, Matt Heinz from Heinz Marketing. I’ll never forget the very first day of Heinz Marketing. It was just me, a laptop and a (pending) business license. I had a meeting with a new client in downtown Seattle in the morning, and a prospect in the afternoon. My mid-day […]
In Life & Building a Company: It’s About the Journey, Not the Destination
Here’s a very personal story that I shared with my thinkspace team about one year ago – April 2010. I was re-reading this story because I’m about to start my second year in the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at MIT and I wanted to reflect back on what kind of impact is this having on me […]
The Third Law of Performance
Well here we are, at last! The Third Law of Performance: Future-based language transforms how situations occur to people The Third Law gives us the power to create results. As we learned in the First Law of Performance, “How people perform correlates to how situations occur for them,” and the Second Law of Performance, “How […]
Do Your Board Members Stop You From Making Mistakes? | #techtues
[youtube width=”500″ height=”300″]k10efDiKQfA[/youtube] First fifteen minutes of “Build Your Board” by Mike Crill Mike Crill, Managing Director for Atlas Accelerator spoke at thinkspace for our Tech Tuesday event. Mike spoke on “Build Your Board”. He covered things like what types of boards are there, how much to compensate your board, how to measure if your […]
The Second Law of Performance
My post from last week discussed the First Law. This week we’re diving into the Second Law of Performance from The Three Laws of Performance by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan. The Second Law: How a situation occurs arises in language. Logan and Zaffron explain the Second Law by stating, “How situations occur is inseparable from language.” […]
The First Law of Performance
This post is a continuation from my Introduction to The Three Laws of Performance. Over the next three posts I will be writing about each of the three laws individually. So, let’s jump right in… The First Law of Performance: How people perform correlates to how situations occur for them. You might be asking what […]
Advisory Board: A Couple Creative Ways to Form One
I’ve been reading a lot of different articles on building an advisory board. I came across an article by Mark Suster. Mark is a two time startup founder. In the article Mark shares “Should you have an advisory board“. Under deliver relative to expectations Mark states that in his experience “most advisory boards under deliver […]
Startups: Building Your Board of Advisors
Last week marked thinkspace’s three year anniversary and every time I hit a time-based milestone I tend to become introspective. Over the last year, I have been working on the pillars and foundation blocks of my business. Those being company core values, culture, one page strategic plan, getting the right people on the team, implementing […]