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By Dino Tartaglia.
Imagine that you had no word for ‘blue.’
Here’s an extract from a story shared by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book, Antifragile.
“We know more about what something is not than what something is. If there would have been no word for the colour...
By Dino Tartaglia.
Your Personal 'Star Chart'
In the year of my birth, Robert McNamara became the US Secretary of Defense, and he remained in the post for several years until 1968.
McNamara was obsessed with the idea of making decisions based ONLY on quantitative analysis, purely...
By Dino Tartaglia.
In the October issue of Create Evolve Overcome Magazine, we opened up the discussion around Asking Better Questions and saw how this singular skill helped Billy Beane, the GM of the Oakland A's baseball team, effectively save his team and make the business of baseball in...
By Dino Tartaglia.
Life isn't fair. Get used to it! ~ Bill Gates
Whatever you think about Gates, the Billionaire's statement about Life might, at first blush, sound a bit fatalistic, like you're a hostage to Fortune.
But that's not really what the man meant.
The focus of the statement,...
By Dino Tartaglia.
In the mid-80s, an American drama-cum-sitcom, very much of the style of that era, hit the airwaves.
It was named after the classic expression ‘Crazy like a fox’, which gained currency (reputedly) when the humourist S. J. Perelman used it in 1944 as the title...
By Dino Tartaglia.
There are TWO questions I have in mind whenever I’m asked by a business owner to help them (or, more usually, a person who IS a business owner but calls themselves by what they DO, e.g., physiotherapist, hotelier, graphic designer, accountant, etc).
(We’ll get into...
By Dino Tartaglia.
At Success Engineers, we’re all about:
- Simplicity not Complexity
- Brutal Honesty (with kindness) not Fluff and Platitudes
- Tailored advice not ‘Blueprints’ designed for only one type of Entrepreneur
- Fundamentals not chasing Shortcuts, Hacks and Trends
- ...
By Dino Tartaglia.
In the classic film, The Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland’s character, Dorothy, finds herself and Toto, her pet dog, in a mysterious and often dangerous land, having been whipped away by a cyclone from her home in Kansas, USA.
She discovers that the land is called...
By Dino Tartaglia
For the first quarter of 2021 (Jan-Mar), we looked at a bunch of things to help you build your business more effectively, following the simple 3-Step System we use at Success Engineers:
Get Clarity
Get a Plan
Get to Work (and stay on track).
This quarter (Q2: Apr-Jun) in The...
By Dino Tartaglia
I’m pretty sure that there’s almost no one left in all-but the most remote corners of the planet who doesn’t know the wonderful fairy story of Cinderella, the beautiful girl who lived with her wicked stepmother and horrid, ugly stepsisters, and who...
By Dino Tartaglia
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll tells of a situation where Alice encounters the Cheshire Cat. It's a piece I use a lot to talk about ‘Strategic Direction’, or simply having a Plan to execute and a Place that it'll take you to, if you will. It...
By Dino Tartaglia
Last month, we started working through our super-simple 3-Step process to help you Build a Joyful, Dependable Business around Being Brilliant at What You Do, so that you can get closer to What Matters Most. If you haven’t read the article, go back and do that now, as...
By Dino Tartaglia.
In the gripping 1975 film Jaws (well, it was gripping if you were a teen in 1975 ), there’s a scene where Chief Brody, played by Roy Scheider, is rocked by the sheer size of the eponymous great white shark which is chasing the Orca, the boat he’s in, together with...
By Dino Tartaglia
Ever felt hidebound or constrained by what you’re supposed to do? Being told that what feels aligned to you ‘isn’t what works’ or ‘isn’t the way to be successful’?
If you’ve followed any of the things I’ve shared in the TFCEO...
By Dino Tartaglia
Imagine, if you will, that we’re at war and that you’re the person assigned to sort a very specific problem out. In fact, being a wartime problem, the decisions you make will quite literally mean life or death for many people.
The problem is this: For...
By Dino Tartaglia
There’s an old fable about an eagle that thought he was a chicken.
When the eagle was very small, he fell from the safety of his nest. A chicken farmer found the eagle, brought him to the farm and raised him in a chicken coop among his many chickens. Sure enough, the eagle...
