Fail To Learn | Obstacles are Opportunities
Obstacles are opportunities | Learn from the mistakes of others...
I have the fortune to talk with Dan Crask, from Brand Shepherd today. When Dan started up their business they took on a client who they should’ve told, “No!”
They were new in business. They wanted to build something amazing for this company because the company had potential influence for referrals. So they took the job. And it lost money, time, and energy.
Captain David Marquet is the author of Turn The Ship Around. The book documents his time leading the nuclear submarine, the USS Santa Fe.
From among all the books I’ve read on leadership, Turn The Ship Around is one I remember and consistently think about when working with my team. The prescription he has is a very simple model that empowers all individuals to produce the best possible outcomes.
Nate Smith had to ask himself a series of questions as he abandoned business attempt after business attempt. Until he found something that worked. It works well now, and he keeps on top to make sure it continues working far into the future.
As your business grows you have to make many decisions around hiring employees. Bringing on employees brings on an entirely new set of challenges, and highlights challenge areas in your business you never realized you had. Joanna Wiebe, founder of Copy Hackers, shares the struggles and challenges she endured with her hiring process.
Keenan went through a lot before he found success as A Sales Guy. He’s a great example of persistence in light of disasters after disaster. He had one collapse after another, falling like dominoes in a line.
Jon Nastor is the guy behind a coupe of highly successful podcasts (Hack The Entrepreneur and The Showrunner) and over the past 3 years built a product called VelocityPage. One of the first products that allowed you to quickly create landing pages without knowing how to code.
VelocityPage was unique and made a huge splash on the market.
