Justin Levy

When I talk to my family, friends, colleagues or community and ask them how they’re doing, usually they respond with some variation on being too busy, tired and in need of a vacation. This is because we have been trained to run as hard as possible to stay competitive. For many of us, we live [...]

An underlying theme of some of my recent posts have been the value of time. One of the main reasons why meetings are broken are because they take too much time and distract you from what is important. The reason why I was able to say “I love you” to my mom before she passed [...]

In most companies meetings are broken. You and I both know it. We organize and attend meetings that take too long, are unstructured, involve too much rambling and not enough follow-up. We meet for the sake of meeting, not out of necessity. We allow individuals to hijack the meeting so it takes twice as long [...]

When I heard that Tony Hsieh was writing a book about the meteoric rise of Zappos from a startup that almost collapsed to a $2 billion a year powerhouse, I was really excited to get my hands on a copy. I have been fascinated with Zappos for the past few years because of their focus [...]

I try to find inspiration, motivation, drive and ideas in every aspect of life. I look at how other companies operate in different industries and try to apply some of those qualities that I admire to the companies that I’m part of. I think about how hard others work in their jobs and lives whether [...]