I just wrapped two speaking engagements this week where I taught this idea, and it's been stuck in my head ever since. So I'm sharing it with you too, because it might be the most useful thing you read all week.

It's called the Pygmalion effect.

In 1968, two researchers (Rosenthal and Jacobson) wa...

I spent this week prepping for two speaking engagements, with more on the calendar for next week, and somewhere in the middle of it I caught myself doing the thing.

You know the thing.

The work that easily could have been spread across two calm weeks somehow got done in the tight little window rig...

It's officially a few weeks away from the fourth quarter. And if you're anything like most of the business owners I talk to, some part of you is already mentally halfway to January.

I get it. The holidays are coming. The calendar is about to fill up with parties and travel and family obligations. I...