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Why I Wrote This I'm getting the same question from nearly every client right now: "What should I be doing?" And it's not just business owners asking. Employees are asking it too — people who thought their job was secure, who are watching their industry shift, who are...
Where to Put Your Resources During a Transition I'm not a financial adviser. I can't tell you where to invest your money. But I can share what the historical evidence shows about how wealth was created and destroyed during every major disruption — and you can draw...
Disrupted Markets You can't control fuel prices, interest rates, government policy, or what's happening in Iran. You can't control the pace of AI development or whether your industry becomes one of many distupted markets next month or next year. Here's what you can...
The Compass Map "Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life." — Hunter S. Thompson Here's where most business advice falls apart right now. Everyone's telling...
What Saved Businesses in Every Disruption? "It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it...
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." — Will Rogers The research identified consistent patterns in who failed. These aren't theories. They're observed across 250 years of evidence. 1. Waiting for Clarity The most common...
(and the Time Before That, and the Time Before That) "It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true." — Mark Twain Over the last year, I've had access to forensic research covering four major technological disruptions...
I need to say this clearly because a lot of people — good, smart, hardworking people — are still operating on the assumption that things will "get back to normal." They won't. Where we're going will never be what we had NZ Business is never going back to normal. The...
"You have catastrophes in the natural world — hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. There are no catastrophes in the economic world. Every economic disaster is man-made." — Jared Dillian Let's name it plainly. We are not in a normal economic cycle. This is not 2008 (a...
Your Life Pays You. Choose a Better Payment Plan. If you’re addicted to your current life, you don’t quit by force. You quit by replacing the payoff. Because no human stops a behaviour that’s paying them… unless something else pays them better. So here’s the punch:...
