Scaling yourself as a leader

If you can't delegate as you take on more and more leadership responsibility, you can't scale. It's hard. I get it. Even managers at some of the world's leading companies have trouble with it. Take Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX: "Musk has to focus on 'a painfully large number of engineering & manufacturing problems' … Continue reading Scaling yourself as a leader

Behind every great seller is a system

The best salespeople are the best because they use systems and are constantly learning new things to improve those systems. Many of them don't even know it until you really dig into their day-to-day and their weekly or monthly activities. They'll say it's all habit. They aren't wrong. It's habit for them. They've simply practiced … Continue reading Behind every great seller is a system

Advice for moving to The Cloud

There is one piece of advice above all others for those companies planning a transition to the cloud: Plan your monthly recurring charges against your actuals, don't estimate them based on hopes & dreams. What this means in practice: You aren't going to downsize/rightsize your systems. If you had the time and resources it would … Continue reading Advice for moving to The Cloud