Boiling the Ocean

Sleep as the ultimate life hack and why we need rest to be our best

It can often feel as though there is no escape from being constantly “switched on” in our...

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Consultants don't always give advice; often, they provide permission, too

What is one of the least understood roles of a consultant or advisor? Believe it or not, it's...

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Work and Life Equations

Wouldn’t it be great if we could reduce life to a simple set of equations? Well, if that idea is...

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Ego is the Enemy

People have egos, but organizations appear to have them, too. How else can you explain...

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Prof. Corey Phelps and Problem-Solving as a Super Power

What’s the most useful skill you can have in your utility belt these days? For many people -...

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Specialists v Generalists and the Future of Work

For years, we’ve been given the message that the working world no longer has a place for...

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Growth is (not always) good

Gordon Gekko famously said in the movie “Wall Street” that “greed is good.” While it’s probably...

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Consulting tactics and do you eat your own dog food?

In a very real sense, Mike and Ion give advice for a living. Perhaps you've sometimes wondered...

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The myth of work-life “balance” and what we should aim for instead

?Have you read an article recently that preached work-life balance? Of course you have. It’s a...

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Applying the 80/20 Rule to work and life

A headline in the Guardian recently blared: “the Top 1% of England owns 50% of the land”. Another...

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Disrupt yourself or be disrupted (Part 2: the blurring of products and services)

Disruption may be the most over-used word of the 21st century, but there’s often a reason why...

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Disrupt yourself or be disrupted (Part 1: Bundling and Unbundling)

Disruption may be the most over-used word of the 21st century, but there’s often a reason why...

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The power of a good question (Part 2)

In this episode, we ask a lot of questions… about questions. When we thought about it, Mike and I...

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The power of a good question (Part 1)

In this episode, we ask a lot of questions … about questions. When we thought about it, Mike and...

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New Year’s Resolutions suck. Think about the next year and decade like this instead.

As we write this in the third week of January, we bet that many of you reading this will have...

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Toolkits of the Titans: Shane Parrish (Part 2)

For our last episode of 2018, we decided to try something different (as we periodically do). For...

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Toolkits of the Titans: Shane Parrish (Part 1)

For our last episode of 2018, we decided to try something different (as we periodically do). For...

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Inertia, risk, and status quo bias

Do you ever find yourself stuck in a professional or personal rut? Have you or your business...

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What’s your favorite position(ing)?

Deciding what niche to occupy is one of the biggest decisions people make when charting a path...

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AI and U

Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be capturing a lot of business magazine covers these days,...

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