The Twenty Percenter
Weekly advice for top business professionals.
The Perfectionism Trap: Just in Time vs. Just in Case (3 Min Read) | Vol. 139 February 21, 2025 “I think perfectionism is just fear in fancy shoes and a mink coat, pretending to be elegant when actually it’s just terrified.” – Elizabeth Gilbert The Perfectionism Trap: Just in Time vs. Just in Case I …
ICYMI: Ideas into Action – TIPSS Revisited (3 Min Read) | Vol. 138 February 14, 2025 “Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge. Action is the beginning of change.” – James Clear ICYMI: Ideas into Action – TIPSS Revisited Next week is our annual convention, so I’m revisiting one of our most popular posts on how …
The Apology (3 Min Read) | Vol. 137 February 7, 2025 “Clarity is kindness.” – Brené Brown The Apology I remember watching one of my leaders triage their email inbox during an important training class. I’d asked them to attend the two-day class to improve their hiring, a core element to their success. I got …
The Infinite Resource (3 Min Read) | Vol. 136 January 31, 2025 “Love is not a pie.” – Amy Bloom The Infinite Resource I once attended a talk by author Bob Beaudine where he created an unforgettable moment. Early in his presentation, he asked everyone in the audience to pull out their phones. But instead …
The Hidden Cost of Busyness (2 Min Read) | Vol. 135 January 24, 2025 “If busyness is your drug, rest will feel like stress.” — Dr. John Delony The Hidden Cost of Busyness University of Chicago and Shanghai Jiao Tong University researchers discovered the answer to why we just can’t sit still.* They asked participants …
Three Ways to Be a Time Millionaire (4 Min Read) | Vol. 134 January 17, 2025 “Time is so valuable it’s like having money in the bank.” – Nilanjana Roy Three Ways to Be a Time Millionaire Writer Nilanjana Roy coined the phrase “time millionaire” in her 2016 Financial Times column, “How I Became a …
Monks, Booze, and a Secretive Recipe for a Values-Based Life (2 Min Read) | Vol. 133 January 10, 2025 “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” ― Roy Disney Monks, Booze, and a Secretive Recipe for a Values-Based Life Carthusian monks have been distilling chartreuse, an herbal liquor, in …
Flywheels and Siphons (2 Min Read) | Vol. 132 January 03, 2025 “Each turn [of the flywheel] builds upon previous work as you make a series of good decisions, supremely well executed, that compound one upon another. This is how you build greatness.” ― Jim Collins Flywheels and Siphons This past fall, I had to …
Nine 2024 Year-End Reflections and One 2025 Intention (2 Min Read) | Vol. 131 December 27, 2024 “People don’t really learn when you tell them something. They don’t even really learn when they do something. They start learning, start creating new neural pathways, only when they have a chance to recall and reflect on what …
How Focus Really Works (2 Min Read) | Vol. 130 December 20, 2024 “Knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on.” — Warren Buffett How Focus Really Works Johannes Kepler is considered one of the founders of modern optics. In the early 1600s, he improved Galileo’s reflecting telescope …
