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 | May 12, 2017 | Coaching, Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big, Uncategorized
In last week’s post, we talked about why waiting—putting off our goals and dreams until some arbitrary future date—is often a waste of precious time. Sometimes, all we need is to look at things in a completely new way. A few years ago I had a great coach named...
by Scott Anderson | May 3, 2017 | Essential Reading, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big, Uncategorized
How often have we heard that we need to have a five-year plan or a 10-year plan? Several things have occurred recently that made me think about why we wait. The rationale for waiting is typically completely made up. I started thinking about all the time I’ve...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 4, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Playing Big, Uncategorized
As many of my readers know, I really like to beat the “niche drum.” For the last six months or so, I’ve really thumped on about this because finding the right niche is one of the most important things a business can do. So it’s probably no...
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...
