experts
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, or so the saying goes. In my experience, so are the efforts of the wrong expert hired to help your organization. But let’s face it: It’s almost impossible to really tell how a hire is going to go until you’re into it. That’s why there’s this…
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When trying to make a decision, my son’s go-to tiebreaker is “eenie meenie minee mo.” While that can work for 8-year-old decisions like which Otter Pop flavor to have, it’s probably not as effective when you’re trying to determine which expert you should hire for your business. There are actually quite a few challenges in…
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Often, the most effective “tricks” are the simplest ones. Today, we’re exploring one of the most basic—and most transformative—business hacks I’ve found: scorecards. I know what you’re thinking: “Seriously, Brandy? A scorecard? That’s not going to help me.” Or “Yeah, good luck getting that to work in my company. I’m never going to do that.…
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I’ve come to believe that in both business and life, there’s never a perfect time for anything. Planning to get married? Never a perfect time (I think couples planning weddings last year really feel this). Want to have a baby? Never a perfect time; sometimes it happens when you’ve been fired and just started a…
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Finding yourself in the situation of needing help is pretty common. And sometimes when we get into that situation, we can figure out what the next steps are ourselves. Sometimes, though, we just start overthinking, or panic, and in most of these cases, experts can help. It becomes a matter of finding the right one.…
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It seems like it never fails that most of us go looking for help too late. If this is you, you’re not alone. I think this is due to a couple of reasons. One, when something is not in our area of expertise, we grossly underestimate how much time it will take. Check out this…
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So far, we’ve discussed reasons why you hire an expert. Specifically, the first blog was about hiring an expert because you don’t know what you don’t know, and the second was about when you know things so well that you’re overlooking all the holes into which everyone else is going fall. But what about why…
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Have you ever done that annoying exercise where you have to instruct someone else how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich using only words? It’s a reliable way to frustrate people. Okay, so that’s not the actual point of the exercise. But you already know the point of the experiment here: no one…
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