When Anyone Can Do It, It’s a Brutal Red Ocean
When anyone can do something, it signals a red ocean—a fiercely competitive red ocean.
The Cost of Talent
There are two types of people: one type is driven by an intrinsic need to grow and feed themselves; the other doesn’t h…
Who Loses the Most? Naive People.
The last thing on their mind is what they have, what they want, or what they should give up — it’s always what’s wrong …
Bottom-line Thinking: It’s not about how great success looks, but how bad failure feels.
What we mean by a fallback plan isn't how glorious it looks if you succeed, but how bad things get if you fail to deliver anything.
Everyone’s a friend in sunshine, no one in snow.
If you want others to step in, there's only one way: you leave them with a situation where they're adding the finishing…
The fastest way to get ahead is to stop looking for shortcuts.
The biggest shortcut in life is to realize there is no shortcut. Most people take detours because they can't accept this truth, insisting that shortcuts exist, and waste their time in the process.
What Is a Competitive Relationship?
If someone can do it and you can't, then sorry—it's not your thing.
Morning report, evening brief
Constantly confirm with your customers or your supervisor whether what you’re doing is actually useful. If it isn’t, co…