I’ve always wished my business was full of robots. Hiring and holding people accountable for silly, redundant activities is rarely a good investment in human capital. It siphons away crucial resources — time, money, and potential. When I became the Vice President of Acquisitions (buying commercial aircraft parts, planes, and…

People waste 21.8 hours a week on activities that don’t matter. Half of the average work week is spoiled by activities that extract time, your time being the ultimate investment. David Finkel polled his business owner clients, and the amount of time wasted is scary: 6.8 hours per week on…

Mindfulness practice has transformed every aspect of my life: Parenting, husband, leader, business, communication — all of it. Without mindfulness, you’ll live a mediocre life because everything is about some past or future. You’re controlled by the whims of your desires and emotions, constantly pulled into the volcano of distraction. …

Imagine waking up knowing it’s the last day of your life. You take one of your last deep breaths and begin to reminisce. You start remembering your childhood, your first date, your first crappy job, your child’s birth, your wedding day (maybe night), and everything in between life’s precious moments. …

Where your attention goes, energy flows. Early in my career, I’d obsessively try to do everything that popped into my tiny genius of a brain — so I thought. Then, I’d light the torch and set my wick on fire, watching it ruthlessly burn from both ends. Nothing was ever…

I used to dangerously struggle with labeling my assumptions as a fact. Often, my emotions weren’t far behind, trying to control what I felt was the truth versus the actual truth. It’s an easy mistake, and we all make it. Our emotions pull us down a hole of one-sided, cloudy…

I’ve lost millions of dollars because I was incompetent in my role. It’s an issue many companies struggle with at the leadership level, big and small. In an All-In podcast, Chamath Palihapitiya said, “We’ve gone through an entire decade of undertraining an entire generation of people in Silicon Valley.” But…

Leaders who blame remote work for struggling businesses are incompetent. They identify a single source to use as a scapegoat for poor productivity instead of looking at the deeper, core issues plaguing their company. It’s gone as far as blaming remote work for Twitter losing $4,000,000 daily. Four-million-dollars-a day! Scapegoating…

Promotions are often given to people until they reach a level of incompetence. What once was an incredible, capable employee, who was great as an individual contributor, will eventually be promoted into positions where they’re incompetent — usually a managerial role. …