The Growth Journey of P.J. Tucker, Your New Role Model
A disclaimer: I am very biased. I grew up in Houston, Texas, and came of age during the glory years of Hakeem ‘The Dream’ Olajuwon. When the Houston Rockets won the NBA Championship in 1993, I was a...
View ArticleThe Potholes In Your Mind: Using Mental Models
I don’t get angry. I don’t get anxious. That’s just how I’m wired; I always thought it was a good thing, an advantage. It certainly helped when I was building a company. It helped, too, when there were...
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Lessons from the Trail, Minus Phones
The long game For four years now, I’ve volunteered with Explore Austin. It’s a really cool organization; teachers nominate high potential students from low income communities as mentees the summer...
View ArticleA staffing company expands – and finds a new angle
The last time we checked in with this staffing company, three family members – Cruz, his wife Nelba, and daughter Cecilia had taken their staffing business from their kitchen table to the office they...
View ArticleDo you have skin in the game?
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the...
View ArticleHe served his country for 20 years. His next battle? Being a father, and an...
Ruben joined the United States Army in 1996, a South Texas kid who wanted to serve his country. Twenty years later, he signed his discharge papers and retired from a job he’d had more than half his...
View ArticleYear in Review: Finding trust, avoiding complacency, and putting skin in the...
This year brought a lot of change – and we wrote about the lessons learned through it all. We profiled four clients whose commitment to customer service drove them to start their own companies. And we...
View Article5 Things to Reset and Review in the New Year
The other day, our client’s office ground to a halt. It was silly, really – a single crucial password that had been lost to time and turnover and someone’s Post-It getting stuck on the back of the...
View ArticleFour Rules for More Freedom
What are we doing all this for? In my role, I talk to entrepreneurs and founders constantly, people who are building something for their families and their employees. These are people who are working...
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