The playing to win strategy framework by Rodger Martin and former P&G CEO AG Lafley is a great way to frame strategy. 1 - What’s the winning aspiration? 2 - Where are we playing? 3 - How do we win? 4 - What capabilities do we need? 5 - What management systems do we need?

Pressure is a privilege. It means you are playing at a high level.

What’s more risky? Working for yourself? Or working for someone? Working for yourself you can have infinite streams of income (customers), so it’s less risky. Working for someone else, you are solely relying on them for your wage. To me working for someone else is more risky

Confidence comes from competence

Where you are today has come from a collection of decisions. It’s amazing how one decision can take you down a completely different path.

Designers have a gift other than just designing graphics, or websites or buildings. Designers can solve problems in all levels of a business. From marketing, to strategy, to new product lines, and always with the customer in focus. Design is a skill that is here to stay.

Little daily habits compounded builds momentum. Momentum builds confidence. And then confidence breeds more confidence. Starting is the hardest part.

The more people know and talk about you, the more you come to mind. It’s how advertising works, and how brands stay relevant. As they say, all publicity is good publicity.

Mental models will seriously change the way you think and make decisions. They are essentially frameworks and models for how we perceive the world. In a complex world, you are better off with more ways to frame you thinking. #thinking #personaldevelopment

Ai is both a disadvantage and an advantage, it completely depends how you look at it. If you look at it as a second brain, then there’s endless possibilities. Our team is using it as a second brain, to - generate names - ideas - test code - summarise PDFs - draft content

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Everything starts with purpose. Having a personal purpose is like a North Star for your life. Defining what you stand for, who you want to be and where you are going. It creates sustained motivation and helps propel you through tough times. #peakperformance #purpose

Every morning you wake up with a choice to view life in a negative or positive way. One opens doors, the other closes.

Life is not about the amount of breaths we take, but the amount of moments that take our breath away. Got me that one 😎

Running a business is not for the faint hearted 🤣 Talk and up and down. Control what you can, and let go of what you can’t is the only way to deal with it. #mindset

Best way to start the working day. Get three small tasks and get them done straight away. The quick fire dopamine creates momentum. The “eat the frog” mentality of doing the hardest thing first is completely the wrong way around in my opinion. #productivity

Fail fast. Fix fast. Learn fast.

Picking up the phone is a force multiplier and a skill lost by the younger generation. In 3 calls I’ve had answers that could significantly move the business forward. Tone of voice, enthusiasm and rapport is easier to build on the phone. Something that email lacks.

Bouncing back from failure should be taught at GCSE level. Life ain’t all sunshine and daises. And failure is where we learn the most. Success is a lousy teacher. #failure #personaldevelopment

Price is a powerful lever that most businesses don’t think too hard about. Working in marketing, you see the real value of a product or service. Yet prices are mainly set by businesses adding % margin on after costs, rather than seeing it as a customer.