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Paper Napkin Wisdom with Govindh JayaramanThe biggest breakthroughs don't always come from boardrooms, textbooks, or endless strategy decks. More often, they're sparked in simple moments—captured on the back of a napkin.That's the heart of Paper Napkin Wisdom.
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392 - [EON] Stop Filling Holes That Don't Exist: The Hill Is Already Under Your Feet (opens the original)
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There are six years of my life that I have occasionally looked at as missing. Around 2018 and 2019, things at home changed. My family needed more of me than I had been giving, and not in some abstract work-life-balance sense. They needed my attention. They needed my presence. They needed me to be there in a way that made continuing to push at the same pace impossible. So I stepped back. At the time, Paper Napkin Wisdom was doing extremely well. The podcast was frequently appearing in top charts
391 - Jisook Choi on Resilient Leadership: Stop Pushing Harder and Start Listening in Neutrality (opens the original)
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There is a particular kind of trap that catches successful entrepreneurs. The method that built the business worked. Working harder worked. Holding higher standards worked. Thinking faster, solving more, demanding more from yourself and sometimes from everyone around you worked. Until it doesn't. That is where Jisook Choi's idea becomes uncomfortable. What if resilience at this stage of leadership is not about finding another gear? What if pushing harder is actually making it more difficult to h
390 - [EON] Quit the How. Never Quit the Where. | Paper Napkin Wisdom Episode 390 (opens the original)
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There is one word that appears somewhere in the story of almost every person who eventually makes it, and almost every person who does not. Quit. The interesting part is that both groups use the word. The difference is what they decide to quit. Over decades of building businesses, coaching entrepreneurs, and collecting more than a thousand ideas through Paper Napkin Wisdom, I have watched people stay with things long enough to create extraordinary outcomes. I have also watched smart, capable peo
389 - Tim Woodbridge on Entrepreneurial Resilience: Why Resilience Compounds Faster Than Capital (opens the original)
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There is a point in building a business where resilience has to change. Early on, resilience can look like sheer resourcefulness. Find the money. Solve the problem. Stay late. Put something on a credit card. Figure out how to keep moving. That version can build the company. It can also become dangerous if the founder keeps using it after the company has outgrown it. In Episode 389 of Paper Napkin Wisdom, Govindh Jayaraman sits down with Tim Woodbridge, Founder, Acquisitions Lead, and Visionary a
388 - [EON] You Don't Have to Grow: What Does Winning Mean to You Now? (opens the original)
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Growth has become one of those words entrepreneurs rarely question. If the company is doing $5 million, the goal becomes $10 million. One location becomes three. Twenty employees become fifty. A good regional business becomes a national one. The assumption is almost automatic. Bigger means better. But what if it doesn't? In Episode 388 of Paper Napkin Wisdom, the 50th Edge of the Napkin episode, Govindh Jayaraman explores the first uncomfortable question inside his upcoming book, Dynasty DNA: Wh
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