Dateline: Amsterdam With all the good intent to publish these monthly updates asap at the start of each new month … well, you’ll excuse me if life, clients, and invoicing often take priority. Still, I appreciate you reading them and your feedback. Last month’s post is here; next month’s will be here. Family Jacob gets...
Immediately scales fell from my eyes, and I could see… Growing up, my father proffered plenty of advice, some of it actually useful. The most valuable suggestion he ever gave me was simple: You are who you hang with. I suppose it’s a corollary of the aphorism that each person is an average of the...
Originally published on the Shirlaws Business Coaching Blog, 2007-2010. Spark, n. a momentary flash of light, merriment expressed by a brightness, a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger. Welcome, to a global audience from Queensland, Australia, and welcome to what is my first foray into the business blogosphere. I’m tempted,...
Wow. Shit’s getting real folks… For the first time since I started my coaching practice in 2006, I am now fully operating under my own Brand. #BrandJacob. This is not to take anything away from Shirlaws Group (2006-2016), Real Estate Grow (which rolled into #RealReach, where I am a shareholder and Editor-in-Chief), or businessDEPOT (where...
After nearly 3 years, my time internal to businessDEPOT will come to an end this Friday. As an advisor, I help clients define and achieve their ambitions. Their commercial objectives. Their cultural aims. Their wildest personal dreams. And it wouldn’t be practicing what I preach if I wasn’t going the same thing (with the help of...
