Business
5 Practical Tips to Building and Running a Business
Regardless of industry, there is always a constant in that every day you’ll be presented with new challenges when running a business. I believe that these challenges introduce insecurities in our personas in which we often fear that our lack of knowledge in a subject makes us exceptionally vulnerable to failure. To account for this we…
Read MoreKnowing and Doing
Lately I have been having different conversations with people in which I talk to the idea of Knowing and Doing and how they are not mutually exclusive to one another. I think a perfect example that best illustrates what I mean can be found at conferences. I believe there is an important distinction to be made.…
Read MoreThe Beauty in Being Naive
I think there is an elegance to being removed from opinion or bias. Too often we tend to shake our heads at the other and think, They just don’t know… This clouds our way of thinking, and in some instances blocks our ability to think beyond our norms. I ask myself every day, with every…
Read MoreWordCamp Minneapolis 2015: Building and Running a Global Workforce
Recently I spoke at WordCamp Minneapolis 2015 on Building and Running a Global Workforce: The People Aspect of a Remote Company. While I usually speak about security, in this talk I share the challenges of a remote work force and speak about people issues, culture, growth challenges, scaling, and everything in between. In June of…
Read MoreLessons Learned From The Cab Industry
When was the last time you were in a cab? How awesome of an experience was it when you did? Was it memorable? I’ve spent the past two weeks on the road, splitting my time between Las Vegas, San Francisco and Minneapolis. I found myself spending a lot of time getting from point A to…
Read MoreThe Power Of Two in Business
I sometimes sit and wonder how things ever got started. I wonder if it’s something that could be reproduced, or if it was just a luck of the draw. What I do realize however is that alone I don’t believe much could have been accomplished. In the beginning there were three of us at our…
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