Question
This is about strategy, but also on motivation and self knowledge. After a couple of months the cool new-ness wears off and you need to keep yourself motivated, but I see no point in self motivation if you are headed in a wrong direction. So how do you check yourself?
Answer
Reid Hoffman, the Co-founder of LinkedIn offers up a suggestion, "Your networks are a store of distributed intelligence that can enable you." All you have to do is know who to ask and where. I authored up an article on this subject recently to a group of small business owners at http://mvb.me/s/35d923