Last Chance for Team-Wide Transformation

Happy (I hope) quiet Saturday morning-I'm off to Home Depot then some indoor soccer tournaments. My idea of a terrific, quiet Saturday. But I wanted to prompt you about the offer I made to you a few days ago. So I'm prompting. This is it—the final ca...

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Mar 02, 2024
You can buy yourself flowers

Twenty-five percent off (25%) until TOMORROW on The Replaceable Founder Course completely updated and in its entirety. Need even more info? Click Here!So anyway...I'm excited to share some updates from the trenches of productivity here at the Foundry...

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Feb 13, 2024
snow days

As we embark on a new year, many of us find ourselves reflecting on the past and contemplating our aspirations for the future--especially when Mother Nature dumps a peaceful blanket of snow out my window. For some, it involves setting grand, amb...

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Jan 07, 2024
Who Gets Digital Access After You Die?

Who Gets Digital Access After You Die?Mortality has been on my mind for awhile now. Maybe it’s the EMT work I do, maybe it’s because my wife and I are expecting our fifth kid. I don’t know. But me being me, after the philosophical musings, I head dir...

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Jan 18, 2023
Believe Me. You Have Time.

When I hear somebody say, “I don’t have enough time,” or “there’s just not enough time,” or “I wish I had more time.” I automatically think, “First, you have way too much time. And second, you’re using it very poorly.”Still here?Awesome.See, they’re...

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Jul 18, 2022
Tool Time

There’s a concept in woodworking that I realized has really interesting applications in business. Basically, it’s the difference between referencing and measuring,In woodworking, a reference is almost always going to be better than a measurement.For...

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Jul 18, 2022
There Are Thirty-Six

Mystery of the Missing Migrants — Charley Harper 1990In 1895, a man by the name of Georges Polti embarked on an analysis of all great works of literature that could be found at the time, Greek classics, Contemporary French works, everything he could...

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Jul 18, 2022
You’re Not The Only One

Charley Harper 1965Every company boasts about this person, the only person that can do this one thing. We hold them in high regard because they have processes in place (even if it’s only in their mind) and have tested them in an authentic setting. It...

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Jul 18, 2022
Practice Does Not Make Perfect

You know the old saying “practice makes perfect”? Who doesn’t, right?. Well, it’s total BS. Practice makes for improvement, maybe. But I think “Practice Makes Permanent” is probably the better way to put it.The problem with this is that it goes both ...

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Jul 18, 2022
Friends, Enemies & Why We Need Both

There once was a bird sitting on a tree ranch, happily singing and singing. He didn’t notice that it was getting cold and that winter was coming. He just kept on singing. It got so cold that he froze, fell off the tree and landed on the ground, near ...

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Jul 18, 2022
Teachable Moments & Moments to Teach

“Insufficient facts always invite danger.” — Dr SpockWe encounter a lot of teachable moments in our day, but not every teachable moment is a moment to teach.Here’s a good example. The other night I was working an ambulance shift and we had a call at...

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Jul 18, 2022
Campane Marinelli

CAMPANE MARINELLI — Founded 1339Art historians think that somewhere around 2000 BC, a craftsman living between the Black Sea and the Persian Gulf, created a sculpture out of beeswax. Then they covered it in damp clay and cooked it in a fire.Obviously...

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Mar 22, 2022