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.” […]
UnMarketing: Cease to Sell and Begin to Engage! (Book Review)
Last time I wrote about the book UnMarketing I told you a little bit of what I thought it might be about, my excitement to read it and entirely too much about my apparent obsession with Amazon. But, that’s not going to be my blog post today (a second blog post on the exact same […]
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 […]
Step Back: Gain Perspective
You see vivid colors that are sort of swirled together: a little bit of burnt orange highlights over a dark brown, and many different shades of green. You can make out individual brush strokes and the grain of the canvas. But it really doesn’t look like much; Just a bunch of colors tossed together. Really, […]
Introduction to The Three Laws of Performance
Last month, the thinkspace book club read The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting The Future of Your Organization and Your Life by Steve Zaffron & Dave Logan. I’m writing this post to give our online community some insight into what we read and learned. The book started off by discussing “The Power of Rewriting The […]
Stress in the Workplace
Stress. It’s a word that’s been on my mind a lot lately. How do you handle stress when things get hectic at work? Wikipedia defines workplace stress as, “The harmful physical and emotional response that occurs when there is a poor match between job demands and the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker.“ I […]
It’s a Mistake to Hire a Gen Y
Lack of work ethic. Demanding and impatient. Those are a few of the words used to describe Generation Y who are now in the workforce. Gen-Y’s are people born between 1977 and 1992 and are between the ages of 19 and 34. Wikipedia describes Gen-Y’s as “…the “Trophy Generation”, or “Trophy Kids,” a term that […]