It's over. Your company, project, product, or app failed. Perhaps it simply didn’t achieve the level of success you’d envisioned or the impact you’d hoped for, or maybe the failure was consequential enough to have long-term repercussions. Every dominant player I know or with whom I’ve co-created with has had the stinging experience of a business failure--some more than once. It can take a good long time for the painful memory to fade. … Read more about “As it turned out”
In M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, one of the main characters learns that his book, which he titles The Cookbook, is destined to inspire a future “great leader.” A future-seeing sea nymph tells him, “A boy in the Midwest of this land will grow up in a home where your book will be on the shelf and spoken of often. He will grow up with these ideas in his head. He will grow into a great orator. He will speak and his words will be heard throughout this land and throughout the world. This … Read more about The Cookbook
1. They Aren’t a Two-Book “Expert” (And They Don’t Hire People Who Are) Dominant Players (or DPs for short) ensure they have current and relevant mastery and expertise in a subject (or subjects) before they open their mouths to tell you what they know. They don’t read an article in Inc. magazine and decide they’re now well-schooled in the subject and can give you advice -- or, worse yet, sell you their advice or consulting services. It’s fine to have an opinion, but make sure you aren’t … Read more about The Top 10 Secrets of Success That Set Dominant Players Apart
My oldest daughter is the total package. And this isn’t just a mom’s bias. I present the facts for your consideration: She’s a software engineer (i.e. a smart cookie), gregarious and kind, and also happens to look like a supermodel. (I don’t say this because I have “mom vision”; she is constantly asked by people she runs into if she’s a model.) She’s in her mid-20s and single. You’d think she must have guys falling over themselves to date her, right? That she has her pick of great options? Yes … Read more about 10 Things Dominant Players Always Do
If sugar is the new smoking when it comes to things we put into our body that are bad for us, sitting is the new significant risk factor for what we do with our bodies. Sitting for long period of our days can lead to cancer, heart disease and a host of other health conditions. Unfortunately, we live a largely sedentary life. Many people work in offices or in front of computers all day. At night we can spend hours sitting while eating, using electronics or watching TV. Most of us don’t think … Read more about Combatting “Sitting Disease”: A Review of IKEA’s New Standing/Sitting Desk