Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Positioning: Get Uncomfortably Narrow
A lot of entrepreneurs and freelancers struggle with positioning.
Often it’s ironic as the work many of us do
Howard Gray
The Tension
The Vessel & The Lens
Last week I had lunch with a friend who, like me, is a recent graduate of a
coaching certification program.
Learning Innovation
KPIs: The slide snap
Here are couple of simple KPIs for all the teachers, facilitators, and keynote
speakers out there.
1. How many times
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Sampling: You don’t know it until you’ve tried it
Why the Hitchhiker’s 3 rules of technology reactions permeate far further
Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide
Adventures...
Adventures #30: Milestones, Deadlines, and the space between
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Dominant Design
When the car company uses dominant design, they may not even know they’re doing
so.
When they see the
Writing
A simple way to get unblocked
You probably know the feeling: that project you’re working on just spins round
and round; nothing moving; no new
Mindsets & Growth
The perils of a chain reaction
Our well-intentioned but misguided desires to root for the independents.
A couple of times a week I’ll walk with
Stage Left
22,000 songs in your pocket
Back in 2001, Apple CEO Steve Jobs uttered his now legendary one line pitch for
a new product his company
Stage Left
The Circuit
The challenges — and the importance — of being out on the road, in the middle,
on the circuit as a creative
Learning Innovation
Are you running a meetup or a workshop?
The corridor of uncertainty, and not getting what you came for.
A few weeks ago I ran a pilot of
Learning Innovation
Back to business school: the new case study
Almost every form of school and education is getting questioned, queried,
unbundled, and rethought.
The same is happening in business
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Freelancer to Entrepreneur: The Forest, The Mountains, and the Water
Imagine a landscape. It has a forest on one side and a mountain range on the
other. The two are
The Tension
Labels In, Labels Out
We’ve always had labels in one way or another.
First, the label tended to be the same as the
Music Industry
The Music Industry's 73%
This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the top 1% of musicians
accounted for 60% of concert revenues
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Coaching
Book Request: The Coaches
Note: this is an idea I am getting rid of
[https://www.howardgray.net/2019/05/10/why-we-need-to-get-rid-of-ideas/] (for
the
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Going Solo? You’re still in the Rat Race
Many of us strike out as consultants, freelancers, entrepreneurs, or artists to
escape the rat race – to get away from
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Why we need to get rid of ideas
On this week’s episode of his Akimbo podcast, Seth Godin answers a listener
question about focusing – more specifically, how
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