Business Building
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
Figma had $0 in revenue for 4 years.
Completely breaks the “rush something to market and start charging immediately” mindset that most try to adapt.
And it resulted in the largest acquisition of a private software company (ever) https://t.co/YLGBR9hJe0
“Good ideas are not conjured out of thin air; they are built out of a collection of existing parts, the composition of which expands (and occasionally, contracts) over time.”
-“Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
It all starts with your Vision. The Vision must be regarded as the central aim that enrolls the support of all your team members. It inspires them to do the things they have to do to meet their own individual goals.
Brad Sugars • Instant Team Building: How to Build and Sustain a Winning Team for Business Success (Instant Success Series)
“What’s working, and how can we do more of it?” Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: “What’s broken, and how do we fix it?” - via Chip and Dan Heath, Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard
Quick Passages
Some questions that I’ve found to be very effective in one-on-ones: If we could improve in any way, how would we do it? What’s the number-one problem with our organization? Why? What’s not fun about working here? Who is really kicking ass in the company? Whom do you admire? If you were me, what changes would you make? What don’t you like about the
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