Time, Energy and Attention, Where are You Pouring Your TEA?

by Nicholas McGill | Dec 11, 2015 | Becoming Heroik, Field Notes, Heroik Culture, Innovation Lab, Lifestyle, Paper Practice, Simplicity, Work Culture

Track This: Where and how you spend your focused attention; time, energy and attention. The most important metric or currency of  these days seems to be our focused, attention time, composed of time, energy and attention (TEA). The modern audience of potential...

7 Apps That Will Instantly Make You a Speed Reading Genius

by Nicholas McGill | Oct 28, 2015 | Becoming Heroik, Heroik Culture, Innovation Lab, Paper Practice, Productivity, Reviews, Simplicity

  It’s amazing to me, how many ambitious upstarts have the passion for new endeavor, yet hate to read and learn to reach their goals. If reading is a barrier to improvement for you, perhaps because you find it slow-paced, difficult or uninteresting, then you’re...

The Art of Speaking Visually: How Images Drive Action

by Nicholas McGill | Aug 18, 2015 | Communication, Marketing, Paper Practice, Strategy, Work Culture

The way we communicate has changed forever. Talk is cheap and a picture is worth a thousand words right? Yet how many in your organization are visually conversant in the new language? How many on your team are digitally literate? How many are at least visually...

Must Read: The Heroik Power of Headlines

by Nicholas McGill | Sep 23, 2014 | Becoming Heroik, Books, Gear, Heroik Culture, Heroik MBA, Innovation Lab, Marketing, Paper Practice, Productivity, Work Culture

There are many books out there disguised as how-to’s, prompting you to tell your story through social media, and to use it as a platform to build a more authentic brand. But let’s be real, most of these books are far removed of specifics with watered down...