by Scott Anderson | Dec 14, 2020 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big, Workplace Culture
What is an executive coach? An executive coach helps you identify and achieve your most important professional andpersonal goals faster and easier than you could on your own. For entrepreneurs, these goals are usually quantifiable. Great examples: Increase sales by...
by Scott Anderson | Jun 18, 2017 | Leadership, Playing Big, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
This my third and final (promise!) post regarding Jeff Bezos’ 2017 letter to shareholders. I’ve already written about his high-velocity decision-making and his Day 1 philosophy. Today’s topic is “embracing external trends early,” and it’s an interesting...
by Scott Anderson | Dec 21, 2016 | Essential Reading, Playing Big, Uncategorized
A version of this post originally appeared in Omaha Magazine’s Fall, 2016, Women in Business issue. As my regular readers know, I successfully completed a work-from-abroad experiment this last summer. It was by far the most satisfying “put your money where...
by Scott Anderson | Sep 14, 2016 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
I love the term “Misery Olympics” and wish I’d thought of it first. Google it and you’ll get about 549,000 results, but who has time to get to the bottom of that rabbit hole? We all watched the Olympics in Brazil last month, but the Misery Olympics never end—they go...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 18, 2016 | Personal Enrichment, Playing Big
I’ll just say it—I’m a sucker for reinvention stories. I love to see emails like the one I received yesterday from my friend Kris Kluver. This guy is your classic entrepreneur and really embodies the spirit of adventure. He started the first of 14 companies when he...