John Wooden once said:
“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
It is a simple sentence, but it captures one of the biggest problems of modern work.
We are busy all the time.
Emails. Meetings.
Running a company or startup is a lot like flying a kite.
From a distance, it looks beautiful.
People see the kite flying high in the sky. They admire how high it has
We often look at CEOs and ask: How do they manage so much?
Hundreds of emails. Back-to-back meetings. Global travel. Thousands of employees. Decisions involving billions of dollars.
A recent Business
We spend a lot of our lives trying to avoid struggle.
As parents, we want to protect our children.
As managers, we want to remove difficulties for our teams.
As friends, we want
In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple at a time when the company was struggling.
Apple had many problems to solve. Products had to improve. The product line needed simplification. The business needed