Increasingly people want to join a startup instead of working at a big corporation. I’ve done both and so lately several people have reached out to me asking about what …

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 …