The past few months have been an absolute whirlwind. From some absolutely huge client wins to some exciting leaps forward with BE Lean’s capabilities and offerings, I’ve hardly had time to catch my breath. Your support has meant the world to me through it all, so I wanted to give you a little taste of…
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Post Views: 0 Once the bastion of professionalism in social media, LinkedIn users now race to outdo each other with increasingly eyebrow-raising tactics to drive traffic and engagement. From overly enthusiastic selfies and dramatic storytelling to dance videos and catchy slogans that seem more at home on TikTok or Instagram, the pressure to stand out…
This is Beginner’s Mind You’ve probably experienced Beginner’s Mind before. Perhaps it was when you first started your business, and you saw nothing but potential and possibilities in front of you. You didn’t know what you didn’t know, and that was precisely what led to your early success. You took risks. You innovated. You created…
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Have you every felt like you just wanted to throw your hands up and start all over again? Maybe you’ve been grinding and grinding and nothing seems to be working? Or you’ve been growing so quickly that everything around you feels like a hot mess? A few weeks ago, I wrote about a book I…
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A Hindu priest and a philosopher dismount their asses and walk into a bar… At least that’s how I’d like to imagine the story starts. In any case, the two were having a dispute about the path to enlightenment in which the philosopher argued the following… The ass that you mount and that you use…
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When I started my first business in 2007, nobody had ever heard of bike sharing, let alone the dockless model we had created. “So it’s like Zipcar for bikes?” was a common question. When I started working at an energy efficiency company in 2009, my grandmother told all her friends that her grandson was an…
What are the most important metrics if you want your business to be scalable? 📈 I get this question a lot. I guess people think I’m a data nerd (and they’re not wrong. 🤓) While of course there’s not a one-size-fits-all answer, the key metrics you want to pay attention to very much depend on…
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One of the most common mistakes I see companies make as they scale is becoming too reliant upon back and forth communication to get stuff done. You know what I mean if you’ve ever had to send 6 back and forth emails just to get a status update, if you’ve had to answer the same…
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How to use abstraction to scale your business Complexity is easy. Simple is hard. This hit home for me recently when a client said something that I thought was really insightful. “Brad, we need our systems to be as simple as our business is complex.” But why is simple so hard? It’s because every single thing…
How 12PointFive used scalability to see the future Do you ever wish you had the power to see the future? 🔮 Having a scalable business gives you that power. Why? Because when your business is scalable, it has the flexibility and adaptability to respond to future possibilities that you can’t see today, but you very…
