7 Symptoms of The Business Killing Habit That Nukes Your Plans And Cripples Your Productivity

by Nicholas McGill | Jan 9, 2019 | Business, Business Development, Business Model Design, Design, Management, Strategic Thinking

One of the biggest yet least known problems that established business owner’s face that they don’t realize has to do with assessing their work capacity. By capacity, I mean the total amount of work you, your team, and the company can perform, recover from and adapt...

Capacity Counts: The 5 Lies You Buy Into That Cause You To Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

by Nicholas McGill | Jan 9, 2019 | Business, Business Development, Communication, Management, Management Strategy, Marketing, Operations, Productivity, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

Look back on your past year. How many initiatives and projects did you tell yourself, your spouse and your team that you were going to accomplish? How much actually got done? Don’t worry, those horrible stats are what most establish owners struggle with and it all...

The 6 Second Business Strategy – How To Avoid Gimmicks That Sound Like Fitness Scams

by Nicholas McGill | Nov 28, 2018 | Business, Content, Digital Marketing, Featured, Marketing, Positioning, Positioning Strategy, Sales, Strategy

I can’t believe you clicked on this. Wait yes I can. Now let’s talk about why first, then, on my honor, I’ll deliver on the promise the 6-second business strategy. Here we go. The Internet is flooded with hollow promises of 90-day marketing programs (funnels, lead...

Episode 14: The 10 Perils of Platforms and 11 Survival Tips to Overcome Them

by Nicholas McGill | Oct 31, 2016 | Business, Communication, Design, Featured, Management, Marketing, Networking, Podcast, Strategy, Work Culture

Welcome to the Heroik Hour, the podcast where we discuss and bring together Technology Leadership and Culture to help you fired up and mission ready for life. I’m your host, Nicholas McGill, Chief Experience Officer for Heroik Media. Thank you so much for joining us...

I Want to Believe But…Why Quantifying Social Capital is So Completely Full of It

by Nicholas McGill | Oct 30, 2016 | Business, Communication, Featured, Networking, Social Media, Strategy, Technology

TL:DR –  Digital metrics of Social Capital like (followers, likes, connections) fail to fulfill their  primary function – to accurately measure and account for the influence and reach of relationships between brands, platforms, and audience. The systems...

9 Things Executives Need to Know About The Hidden Job Market

by Nicholas McGill | Sep 27, 2016 | Business, Featured, Networking, Strategy

It’s true. Beneath the hub bub and spam of traditional, mainstream social networks, and miles beyond the drudgery of LinkedIn, there exists a different kind of community, a corporate underground, that offers amongst other things, access to a treasure trove of...