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
How-To Guides
Step-by-step playbooks to make things happen. Practical, actionable guides to help you solve problems, tackle projects, and create with confidence.
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
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
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Bonus Content
TV shows, self-help gurus, car salespeople, and yoga certification courses all
offer bonus content of one kind or other.
Behind
Mindsets & Growth
Over Indexing
We all have our tried and trusted go-to methods.
Our go-to frameworks, mental models, and communication styles; our ways of
How-To Guides
Question time: Getting booked to speak at conferences
A question (and often frustration) I hear pretty regularly is how to get booked
at conferences as a speaker.
There
Resources
How to start a podcast: a plan for success
This is the second episode in a serious of unplanned, non-sequential guides to
podcasting. The first guide is here >
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
The Creative Observer
Here’s a technique to help stimulate some fresh ideas.
In a group situation, try out just being a quiet
How-To Guides
How to build your network in a new city, country or culture
12 ways to get going when you find yourself in some place new
Moving around the world to live and
Mindsets & Growth
Beyond the 1 hour meeting
The 1 hour slot has long been the default meeting duration – whether team
gatherings, introductory coffees, or job interviews.
While
Mindsets & Growth
7 Lessons from Jim Collins on The Tim Ferriss Show
> “I’m not really a business author; I just happen to have used companies as the
method to study
Learning Innovation
Winning at the great game: How to improve student results
The consistently excellent Farnam Street podcast recently featured a marathon
episode with the investor and educator Adam Robinson. It was
Resources
How to articulate your vision in 4 post-it notes
Here’s an exercise I picked up at a dinner event I attended this past weekend.
It’s intended to
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
5 x Why, 5 x Who
You may have heard about the 5 Whys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys].
It was originally developed at
Stage Left
6 lessons from going live with Oprah
I was sitting at my computer willing the words to come.
I’m creating a workbook/guide for independent professionals
Mindsets & Growth
A simple way to overcome nerves and anxiety in a first meeting
Some people are lucky enough to be assertive, confident and charming no matter
who they’re meeting with.
If you’
Resources
Workshop Slide Deck (guided): Lifecycles in products, companies, and careers
Introduction
This is a workshop session I designed and facilitated in Summer 2018 (annotated
and abbreviated version, with some classroom
How-To Guides
My Podcast Gear: recording, editing, and publishing
I’ve learned a lot from creating a podcast series
[https://www.howardgray.net/podcast/]: from asking good questions and