Thoughts on Culture

Your team wants you to be nice. That’s a problem.

There's a huge disconnect between your team's desire for you to be nice, and your need to be kind. We need to close that gap if our team is to…

Why don’t we tell people to stress?

Why do we treat stress as such an evil? Why is the reaction to a co-worker who is stressed always one of sympathy and advice how to get out of…
BoP #007 Grow your team so everyone wants to poach them

BoP #007 Grow your team so everyone wants to poach them

The quality of your team, however you measure it, is a direct reflection of the attention you’ve paid to finding, recruiting and developing them. Meaning it’s on you! It’s easy…

Vulnerability can be a destructive force

Vulnerability’s not all motherhood and apple pie. There are some really destructive ways that it can show up. And no more so if you’re a founder CEO of a company,…
BoP #006 Recruit so they don’t want to leave

BoP #006 Recruit so they don’t want to leave

When you recruit, you’re naturally looking for the person who’s best for the job you’re recruiting for. If you’re building a company that’s in it for the long term, you…

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