1: Our leadership team has gathered for our quarterly strategic planning meeting. We’ve done a check-in. We’ve reviewed our annual goals for the year. We’ve had a…
1: “Planning is 1 percent of the effort; execution is the other 99 percent,” write Mark Moses and his co-authors in Making Big Happen. Once…
We’ve prepared for and held our annual planning session with our leadership team. We’ve articulated our long-term vision and agreed upon our HOT, our Huge,…
Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On…
This week, we are exploring a goal-setting methodology from Trent Hamm called “Developing a Real Plan for a Better Life.” Yesterday, we looked at step…
1: Is a well-crafted to-do list, executed daily, the secret to achieving our life’s purpose? This week we’ve looked at the first two types of…
1: Yesterday, we discovered the mission statement for our lives. Our Massively. Transformative. Purpose. Now what? High, hard goals. “Big goals significantly outperform small goals,…
1: Yes, the research is clear: Goal-setting improves our performance.  But there’s more to the story. “Simple as the idea of goal setting might seem,…
1: Lumberjacks. The researchers divided this ferociously independent group into teams. “Some teams were told to work smart and fast, but no pressure, do your…
Getting better at getting better is what Rise With Drew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary…
How has University of Alabama coach Nick Saban built “perhaps the most dominant dynasty in the history of college football?” asks Ryan Holiday in The…
1: The technology team at IMVU agreed to a hard deadline: Six months—180 days—to launch the startup’s product and attract its first paying customers. “It…
The year is 2004. A seventeen-year-old girl is sitting in the office in front of a computer. A group of anxious entrepreneurs is standing behind…
“Jer, please tell my new assistant your story.” The Costco buyer made this request to start the meeting. Jerry Swain, CEO and founder of Jer’s…
Imagine it is January 1. “A year from now, your company is having the biggest New Year’s party it has ever thrown. Your entire team,…
Aristotle tells us: To flourish as human beings, we need targets. We need goals. This week we’re reviewing some of the key lessons from Brian…
Brian Johnson has read and distilled the key learnings from over 500 books as part of his Philosopher’s Notes. His rule #1? Expect obstacles and…
Our goal? To create “masterpiece days.” This week we’ve looked at the importance of our morning and evening routines, what philosopher Brian Johnson calls our…
This week we are exploring what it means to be heroic.  This is the key learning from Brian Johnson’s year-long Optimize Mastery class. Brian tells…