“If you don’t know where are you going, it doesn’t matter where you go. Any road will get you there.”
If you want to start a business without writing a solid business plan then you better not start anything.
Tag Archives: productivity
How To Build a Business and Stay Sane
Building your own business is not easy. That is indisputable. But it doesn’t have to be gruesome task that would drive you insane. Here is my advice on how to build your own business and stay sane.
True Happiness – What Really Makes You Happy
Yesterday I was rushed to hospital by ambulance. For the third time in three weeks. My heart again. As it will happen in various intervals for the rest of my life. But I am happy. And grateful. Grateful, that there is an ambulance that I can call. That there is hospital and great nurses and doctors that will take care of me. Grateful that surgery will be scheduled for next week that will help me and it is all covered from my insurance.
Ultimate Guide to Firing And Hiring People
Hiring and firing is one of the key responsibilities of a manager. For startup founder, good hiring and quick firing is key to success.
Looking back at all people I have fired over the years, the only thing that comes to my mind is – I should have done it earlier. Some of them not even hire, but with all of them I have never regretted firing them.
CIA Agents All Around Us – Are You One of Them?
This is excerpt from CIA’s “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” that was issued in 1944 and declassified in 2008. It was intended for everyday people who wanted to help Allies by undermining productivity and order in their countries. Many of the instructions seem to be so relevant in today’s corporate world that I get the feeling war is not over yet. I see many secret agents still working hard all around us.
Two Biggest Time Wasters Ever
I have trained several hundred people in last couple years on personal productivity. When we get to time wasters people tend to call out well known culprits. Almost nobody ever mentions two biggest time wasters ever. Two time wasters that are by far taking most of our time.
Email, meetings, phone calls, colleagues stopping by, travel – guess, you have very similar list on your mind.
5 Easy Ways To Make More Money
Money is not the most important thing in the world. But on the survival scale I would put it very close to oxygen. This is one of my favourite Zig Ziglar quotes. As we all feel, money is indeed not the most important thing in the world but we all can use little extra money. Here you can find 5 easy ways how to make some extra money.
Building Company Without Managers
On Monday I am flying back to Prague after spending almost 3 months in my beloved Melbourne with my family. People ask me when we start to talk about my company – “who is now running it while you’re here?”
Nobody I say (which is true) – we don’t have any managers in our company.
Four Fundamental Pillars of Productivity
They say that shopping is fourth discipline of triathlon. Very true observation indeed. I remember sitting once with my fellow triathloners while on bike training and talking about bikes.
Make It Simple and Keep It Simple
One would assume that most of my time I am spending telling people what to do.
Actually, most of the time I am telling people what not to do.
With growing business I see two main challenges:
i) maintaining quality
ii) managing complexity