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 | Jun 22, 2016 | Coaching, Leadership, Personal Enrichment, Playing Big, Uncategorized
There’s an old expression that “there are riches in niches,” and it’s true; domination of a niche can increase entrepreneurial businesses’ results by an order of magnitude. A great example is Nebraska “experiential branding” agency SecretPenguin, which specializes in...
by Scott Anderson | Aug 3, 2015 | Workplace Culture
The future of work is shaping up to be a place of contractors more than tenured, salaried workers. It’s already trending that way. A large part of this evolution is the increase in remote workers in teams across a huge variety of industries. People will do jobs on a...
by Scott Anderson | Jun 26, 2015 | Coaching, Personal Enrichment
Welcome to the final post in my series on kaizen. If you haven’t read the previous posts, go back and read them here and here. In this blog I will outline some common situations in our personal lives and how we can use the principles of kaizen to deal with them. Ask...