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Generating activity makes problems harder

Iyas A · Feb 22, 2021 ·

“Generating activity is not a problem; in fact it is easy. The fact that it is easy makes the real problem harder to solve. The problem is getting the right things done – the things that matter, the things that will have an impact, the things a company is trying to achieve to ensure success. […]

Ask not what purpose can do for your profit

Iyas A · Feb 18, 2021 ·

With a nod towards JFK… Ask not what purpose can do for your profits, but what your profits can do to serve your purpose. There’s a lot of talk about how purpose makes your company more profitable. With all due respect, that’s a pile of horseploppy. Purpose can enhance your profitability. But I also know […]

Build Back Better means Build Back Kinder

Iyas A · Feb 16, 2021 ·

Build back better means build back kinder. With a special responsibility if you lead a company. With talk of a K-shaped recovery, where fortunes ascend for some while they plummet for others, it’s up to all on the ascendant leg of the K to look out for those on the descendent. Not (just) out of […]

Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood.

Iyas A · Feb 13, 2021 ·

“Tactics come easy once principles are in the blood” I love that quote from Josh Waitzkin’s ‘The Art of Learning‘. He was applying it to how we display mastery as we learn, and I alluded to this previously when discussing how leaders who are at ease with their leadership and values can adapt fairly quickly […]

Let’s hope all businesses come to this

Iyas A · Feb 8, 2021 ·

“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.” I’m not as sure as Thiel is. But I’m absolutely sure that this is a choice we can make as we build businesses. From his insightful book, Zero to One – […]

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