What comes before marketing? Public relations. Get into the mind of your target public By making your good works known. Be as creative as you can on this and you will win.

Take a daily walk. It’s a power up as an executive.

Don’t worry, no one else really knows what the hell is going on either. If they are doing better than you in the same industry and job it just means they show up more, communicate more and deliver more.

Catch them or not, the choice is yours alone

You can’t get mad at someone who is not following your non existent directions. Grow up.

If your management style is crap, it’s a guarantee your team will be too

I am so sick of career politicians who have never had to run or do any job of consequence running the country and seeing the obvious graft.

4) Any political party that gets more than a certain number of individual donations gets paid a campaign fund equal for all running parties.
5) No media organisation can print opinion presented as news

3) all donations to political parties limited to $1,000 per year per naturally born individual, corporate and other donations made in proxy are banned - this includes tickets to dinners, events, etc

If I could wave a magic wand in politics for Australia, I would do two things:

1) no person can be in elected office for more than 12 years in their life
2) All elected officials must have worked in non government jobs for at least one decade

Some people say I'm a coffee snob, but it's just not true.

I mean, just this morning I was in a rush and extracted my coffee at 92c instead of waiting for it to hit 93c!

The easy road in life is never profitable

Hire slow and fire fast is the best advice to new founders

Firing people is the pain life deals you for failing to hire correctly. What do you think?

Firing people is the most unfun thing you have to do as a founder and CEO. It’s almost NEVER incompetence- it’s usually just not the right fit.

How do you know you are onto something as a startup founder?

When competitors start showing up and copy whole sections of your website promisinig the world with little substance.

Anything worth building takes blood, sweat and tears. You don’t savour the victories if they just come at you without work.

If you aren’t writing or approving a new policy or deleting an old one every week on average you will find it hard to grow

"Big fan of your mail gem, and learned a ton just by reading your code 🙏"

Go build something and put it out there.

I did this 20 years ago with my email software library. 647,287,701 downloads later it's still going strong.

And occasionally you get a message like this from a new connection which makes it all worth while:

Learn how to give as a founder. Don’t expect a return on everything, sometimes you just need to help. You won’t get kudos for it, sometimes don’t expect anything in return. Remember, karma is a bit h, but she goes both ways :)

So what are you waiting for? Find the thing that is pissing you off the most and figure out what effort you are avoiding there and then DO THAT!

What area is most concerning to you that you could get the RIGHT estimation of effort on?

But the good news is that no matter the situation, you CAN work out the right estimation of effort and then start DOING that and the problem WILL resolve.

Relationship problems with your wife, you are not at the right estimation of effort required to make her feel loved or cared for and secure.

Can’t move that boulder in the back yard? Your estimation of effort is just not there.

This is simple, brutal, but simple.

Not enough leads? You havent figured out the right level of action and the right actions to do in order to get the number of leads you want. Your estimation of effort is too low.

It’s just that the resolution of every problem you ever run into can be resolved by the correct estimation of effort required for that problem.

Without this datum know, businesses fail, relationships fall apart, sales pitches fall flat, projects go over budget and over time and fail. Everything breaks.

It’s not just “work hard” or “stay productive” it’s something far more simple.

There is one fact that has helped me through more trouble spots as a founder than any other.

It’s an incredibly simple idea but once you really internalise it nothing can truly stop you unless you let it.

I’m proud of my team, they really punch way above

High growth teams are high action teams. The tone level of the members is critical. Those that stop, find fault, always complain, antagonise or shun responsibility have no place in your company, remove them as soon as you can.

Anything your team can do to reduce confusion in the company is their job to do. Make sure they are empowered to step outside their role if it is to selflessly help a customer or avert a disaster.