Rob Woodbridge

“And one thing change’ll bring is somethin’ new” Steve Earle There are times in history that are always discussed by the elders as before and after it. There was a time before electricity altered the working day. A time before the Internet made everything and everyone in the world accessible….

I’ve had a number of conversations over the last couple of weeks during this pandemic about fighting to win versus fighting to not lose. They were spurred by the global shutdown but they are rooted in two very different business philosophies. It is hard to talk about pushing for growth…

Does this sound familiar? You decide to take a family vacation one morning so you pack up the car full of things you may need on that vacation, gather up the kids and the dog, jump in the car and then figure out where you want to go. It seems…

I don’t think I finished my first book, cover to cover, until I was 13. It was as if my eyelids responded to words on a page like they were tiny sleeping pills, each one just…making…my…eyes…so……..heavy. I couldn’t read without falling asleep. So I didn’t. In high school and university…

Do you remember that scene from Austin Powers? That scene has been playing out in my head as we slowly emerge from the clutches of the pandemic and head into the next great unknown. It’s very clear that recovery will look like a good old recession but one the likes…

This twitter post by Hiten is as perfect a sentence that can be written and should give hope to every entrepreneur out there. You don’t need to invent the industry, you don’t need to be a pioneer and pave the way and you certainly don’t need to give up because…

If you can sing you are a threat. If you can sing and dance you are a double threat. If you can sing, dance and act you are a triple threat. The difference between them is that you can make a living doing one or all of them. The more…

And where do we go from here?Which is a way that’s clear. Rock on: David Essex We are over 80 days confined to home and are mostly a mixed bag of anxiety and anticipation as our economy slowly rolls open. We’ve never been here before. We’ve never had this kind…

Do you have mentor envy? I always do when I hear about co-workers or friends talking about meeting their mentors for coffee or bouncing an idea off their mentors. Where are all these mentors and why don’t I have one anymore? One of the greatest things to do for your…

Hustling Is a young mind’s game. That doesn’t mean that it is only for the young, it means that to do it all the time is to waste energy that could be used better elsewhere. My first thought when someone says the word hustle is of James Spader in any…

Creating something out of nothing is incredibly difficult. Think about what that means. An idea occurs, usually as a cumulative result of years of subconscious data gathering and observation. Then the idea is somehow articulated and refined and built. A million things have to go right to succeed and a…

It takes a certain kind of crazy to get into building a company around hardware. To invent something from scratch that people find valuable is hard enough at the best of times, to do it by creating a physical manifestation of that is near impossible for many reasons. Then to…