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For both you and your company, identify who you must beat. A competitor will reveal your weaknesses in the market. An enemy will inspire resilience you never knew you had.

Collect data, analyze it, and act on it. So many of the bad decisions I see come from people relying solely on their intuition.

Stop winging it. Stop solely relying on your gut. Take the time and spend the money to use data to better run your business. That also means getting up to speed on AI.

A witch-hunt is defined as: "A campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views." WHY do you think witch-hunts happen?

When you see someone's character being attacked, before you buy the headline, ask yourself WHO wants to attack this person and WHY. If you can reflect on this, you'll usually be able to identify the source of the witch-hunt.

Hitmaker: The Man and His Music by Tommy Mottola. Mottola discovered and launched the careers of many superstars, including Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez and Gloria Estefan, and is credited with creating the "Latin Explosion."

Whatever industry you're in, study both success and failure. Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, pull in ideas from other sources and then make them your own.

My dad. There's nothing like it when people tell me all the things my dad did for them that they never talked about.

Go serve others. Nothing will bring you more fulfillment than connecting, advising, helping, leading, and loving others.