Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech and Live Events 1) The algorithm isn't helping young entrepreneurs. There are many influencers offering soundbites tailored to get attention or get you to like them. They are promoted in all our timelines - not just yours - creating a noise, bias and most dangerously- groupthink - while burying useful media. We've found the most applicable advice is a bit controversial and harder to find. Another poll on which WFH model we like is empty carbs.
2) When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. It took us years to engrain this foundation culturally as people today need gamification and instant successes - so they chase measures and not outcomes - and use those measures as justification for lack of performance. Bad companies chase KPI's of the day. Salespeople chase activity numbers. Marketers - vanity metrics. My to do list killed me until it became a progress list.
3) Winners Win and Losers lose. In The 48 Laws of Power, #10 is to "avoid the unhappy and the unlucky." Or, as he says more clearly - losers lose for reasons we sometimes don’t see. Avoid them. I've found the converse to be true as well, both in experience and in study. When you find winners, get near them. Overpay them. Know there's more than we're seeing as to why they keep winning. See: Tom Brady
What our feeds are doing to our ability to think and act - The laws of power state winners win while losers lose - When analytics goes wrong