"It's easier and more effective to be in the top 10% in several different skills --- your "stack" --- than it is to be in the top 1% in any one skill."
I thrive in environments where the people are smart and maintain that passion when faced with new challenges. I help leverage the data from the field or internally to better understand how to move forward while utilizing a variety of tool sets to make it happen. From Marketing to sales, understanding the customer and how they are utilizing your service is key to changing how you go to market. Most of the experiments I run may fail, from my perspective that is a huge win because it means we are one step closer to finding what works.
Pro: I love helping people, businesses and communities improve their numbers, operations and meet their goals.
Con: If you have it all figured out and it is just plugging things into a formula then I have to be honest, I am not sure that I am the person you should be talking too.
Started as a simple project with a few others and ended up creating one of the most influential agencies in Phoenix Arizona. Clients ranged from fortune 500 companies to startups.
Transformed this company from a hardware and one time purchase to a hardware/software subscription model that ultimately increased the value of the company by 6400% in 4 years.
Helping organizations and individuals focus on the KPI's that drive the growth. For early stage companies or product launches, this sounds much easier than it really is
What do I know from the hard skills to the soft ones, here is what I can tell you.
Recommendations & Book Quotes
Some of the books I have read this year and link to Amazon if you are interested. By the way, as of Nov 6th 2019 I am on book 23*, my goal for year was 24.
*(only 1 audiobook)
While the concept is simple, there are so many details that push the idea further. The book and the podcast are worth it.
I am actually going to get back to this book, it is the approach of systems thinking and in many ways I have been fascinated by this in the past year. Not sure why.
I did not expect this to be so funny and after reading it I have a lot more respect for what Elon has done.