It is often subtle differences, and slight incongruities, which are the real strength of the individual, making possible extraordinary contributions. Continue Reading
Why Putting Others First Ensures Your Own Success | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
Stop taking credit for what you’ve not done. More critically, stop taking credit for what you didn’t think of or didn’t think through in detail. It’s Continue Reading
Stop, Shut Up and Sit Down | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
2003, Far East Asian nation, the mere formality of a meeting. Little more than a press event really, the final meeting between Minister of Finance Continue Reading
In SpecOps and in Successful Business, It’s the Team or Nothing
That the team is everything in a startup or any high-risk organization for that matter, has been stated to such a degree it now passes as cliché and Continue Reading
Pick Your Fights, Carefully | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
Years ago, my then mentor and lead investor, told me calmly, succinctly. “You don’t know what you don’t know.” This a week into my discussing, Continue Reading
Special Forces and Entrepreneurship: Pushing Beyond Failure
The truly important things, those that change the course of a life or lives require mastery of a domain, the kind of mastery only happens after Continue Reading
Special Forces, Entrepreneurship: Fear of Failure
There is an old Japanese proverb, which goes, “Fall down seven times, stand up eight.” When I first read this as a boy studying Isshin-ryū karate, it Continue Reading
You’re Not Going to Like This | Special Forces and Entrepreneurship
You’re not as valuable as you think you are. Read that correctly. To be fair though, no one is. Evolution optimized us for the propagation of Continue Reading
Special Forces, Entrepreneurship and Personal Accountability
Accountability: it is considerably difficult in today’s globalized world to know what the real cost is for the mistakes the individual makes, mistakes Continue Reading
The Special Forces ODA as a Startup Team
As an investor in startup companies, there is always a difficult balance to be maintained, with respect to what are decisions management must make Continue Reading
Special Forces, Entrepreneurship: 3 Tips for Leading from Any Position
It really doesn’t matter your role in a startup, even if in a more established startup with multiple successful Capital raises behind it and formal Continue Reading
In Special Operations and in Business, Success is Dependent on One Skill Alone
Doesn’t matter whether conducting business or Special Operations, there are quite a number of difficult tasks which must be accomplished Continue Reading
