Your story is your biggest point of leverage. I had an interesting insight recently where insights happen the most – the shower. As I rinsed off sweat from the gym, my thoughts swerved around how companies struggle to hire, train, and retain good talent. Then my thoughts bent the corner and it clicked…..whoa. Insight: “If […]
You have a brand whether you like it or not. Did you choose it or was it assigned to you? Ten years ago, I strolled to find a seat in the classroom on the sunny Stanford Business School campus on a Saturday afternoon. This weekend had a few different characters tackling the challenging topic of […]
If you don’t know what finished looks like, you’ll never finish. This is exactly the problem people have with standing out. “I know I want to write but I don’t fully know what to write about?” This question came up quite often when I coached a few people on how to write manuscripts for their […]
Sales is king but it sits on the throne of these three forces. I loved the smell of fresh magazines. In the 2010s, as an engineer flying out of the Austin airport, I’d have a breakfast burrito in one hand, while I scanned through the bookstore’s magazines. My favorites were the business and entrepreneur ones. […]
There’s a podcast host I’ve been following for about 6 years now. I came across his podcast about writing back in 2019. His show voyeurs over entrepreneurship, creativity, culture, and writing. I’ve been a guest on his show twice now. But then a month ago, he wrote an article on substack about Generation X (GenX) […]
I write these letters to gain more perspective, improve my communication skills, and help others do the same. This takes me to a story that happened in my career… I thought I’d played my cards right at work. I had taken my career into my own hands, showed what I had achieved, and proved my […]
I remember about 11 years ago, standing at the back of a class at Stanford with my classmates, looking at a board, littered with red, yellow, pink, and neon green post-its. The reciprocity board. We learned about building influence. Here’s how it worked. Each one of us wrote, on our post-it note, what we could […]
It snuck up on me. A whole five years have passed since I published my first book, Press Play, on April 8, 2020. Since then, we’ve had a pandemic, rearrangement of supply chains, social protests after the unfortunate murder of George Floyd, an uptick in corporate DEI solidarity, an American president that inspired a riot […]
When I got my bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, back in Chicago, I thought, “Let me go get a master’s.” Then I got my Master’s and thought, “When I get a job, I’ll be good.” Then I got the job and soon I said “I’ll be satisfied when I become a decision-maker. Let me go […]
It’s almost five years now since I published my first book. When I ventured out to interview musicians, designers, and entrepreneurs about music and it’s impact on social change, I was initially moving with the narrative that we all wanted to “fight the power” like my favorite musicians. I thought everyone would want to get […]