The Monkey Story “Scientists started with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, they hung a banana on a string with a set of stairs placed under it. Before …
Building any business is hard. Scaling is a uniquely difficult stage of building a business. But building and scaling a unicorn is 10x harder. Things are moving lighting fast and …
Management is Decision-Making Moving from individual contributor to manager or executive changes your job — less doing and more decision-making. To succeed this requires a different set of skills, concepts, …
I believe that people, like software, have an operating system that guides them — a Human O.S. of sorts. Several years ago “personal user manuals” became popular in startups; I …
Why Regular 1-on-1s Matter Let’s be honest. We all know regular time between a manager and direct report is important. It’s just not often prioritized or executed well. I could …
Wow, crypto has been blowing up in 2021! Bitcoin and Ether recently hit several all-time highs with announcements that Tesla bought $1.5B worth and will accept crypto payments in the …
In this interview I sit down with Maren Kate Donovan on Inde On Air to discuss a range of topics including: How I came to start a luxury hair salon …
As a leader or manager one question comes up again and again. How do you design an organization for high performance? The core problem is that you need to coordinate …
In Ray Dalio’s Principles he talks about the importance of being able to synthesize in order to make good decisions. And in order to synthesize well, you need to navigate …
In addition to my “day job” career that has included management consulting firm Deloitte👨💼, hedge fund Bridgewater Associates 💰, and real estate firm Knotel 🦄, I am co-founder of efoxx …