From life’s unexpected challenges come the most surprising opportunities for growth. OUR 2014 END OF YEAR LETTER TO MAVIDEA CLIENTS AND FRIENDS The end of the year gives us an opportunity to reflect on the past 12 months. And as I sit down to think about this year in review, one word keeps coming to…
Buried in emails? Meet your new cleaner inbox
Microsoft is beginning the roll out of Clutter to Office 365 business customers, which brings the power of Office Graph to your inbox. Clutter is designed to help you focus on the most important messages in your inbox. It uses machine learning to de-clutter your inbox by moving lower priority messages out of your way and into…
The Lean Start Up
High bounce-back-ability. That’s what it takes to run a startup, especially when the brilliant idea that an entrepreneur presented to the market isn’t what the public wants. Or was what the public wanted. Bounce-back-ability doesn’t mean doing more faster, harder, or prettier. It means humbly asking, “What do the people actually want?” and changing the direction of…
Winning the Battle of the Bands. Losing the Battle Within.
Part 3 of a 4-part series on Failing Forward: leadership lessons learned from the rise and fall of my rock band, MAXLIDER Don’t miss Part 2: The euphoria and the fall. After a period of growing success, my band, MAXLIDER, finished fourth place in the United States in a worldwide battle of the bands. We…
Choosing to Cheat
In Andy Stanley’s book “Choosing to Cheat” he discusses work-life balance in a way that is both challenging and enlightening. With the holiday season upon us, I thought I would share a few of my thoughts about the book. At Mavidea, our current theme or rallying cry is “Breathing Room”. We are working to…
