Hey there!Years ago....My coach handed me a marketing plan for experts that made an idea very clear to me.The plan didn't treat a book as merely a book.The same underlying expertise could become:a newsletter,a book,an audio programme,a workshop,a coa...

Hey there...So..I run a programme for young people called The Priority Compass.The goal is to help them develop the leadership capability and quality of thinking they'll need to succeed in school and in the real-world marketplace.One of the things I...

Hey There...So....For a long time, I thought being indispensable was a good thing.I thought...If every important client wanted me…If every difficult problem came to me…If every major decision needed my judgment…That meant I was valuable.And it did.Un...

Hey there..So today...I give myself permission to go off script.Right now, of course, we're in the middle of the Dangote Refinery IPO series.And there is still quite a bit I want us to unpack there.But today…I want to talk about something else.Me.Mor...

Hey there!For as long as I can remember, I have had a strange relationship with work.I hate seeing useful intelligence go to waste.Back when I ran PowerIdeas, an old issue was never really "old."Once we had created it, I would ask:What else can this...

Hey there...So...For most of my career, I have had an interesting problem.My best work is work I cannot really talk about.I work privately.Often with people dealing with commercially or personally consequential outcomes.And because of the nature of t...

Hey there...So...For years, I thought consistency was the game.Show up.Publish.Teach.Serve.Keep doing the work.And yes, consistency matters.But somewhere along the way I realised I had confused consistency of activity with predictability of value.The...

Hey there! So...Back in 2021...I started flirting with the idea of increasing my fees for one on one work.I figured $50,000 a year felt about right.Now understand something.For me, that was a considerable jump.Up until then, I had maxed out at around...

Hey there!I learned the lesson behind Dangote's refinery almost 30 years before I had the language to explain it.Year back...I was selling meat.And when that business went down, I was left with something I didn't quite appreciate at the time.I had le...

Hey there!As promised i come bearing gifts:BEYOND THE FOUNDER™The 10 Page Business Comic That Shows You How to Turn What You Know Into Something That Can Grow Beyond YouWhat if the biggest lesson from the Dangote Refinery IPO had nothing to do with o...