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J-Curves vs Stairs: Two Approaches to Career Growth
A J-Curve is what I call a risky career choice with a potentially big payoff. It’s a choice where you bet that you can transfer the skills you currently…
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Minimum Viable Process
I’ve been talking to a few people lately about Process. As you start to grow the number of employees in a startup, adding process can be one of the…
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What are your job's lighthouse questions?
ICYMI we are launching a pilot where we partner with a limited number of companies to place fractional execs in the Operations and People roles. If you…
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Time is emphasis: planning your calendar as a leader
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Addition vs Subtraction
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Choosing your next job
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Compensation for start ups: A leveling matrix that scales
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I hate OKRs... and other thoughts about goal setting
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Time is emphasis: planning your calendar as a leader
ICYMI we are launching a pilot where we partner with a limited number of companies to place fractional execs in the Operations and People roles. If you…
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Introducing a pilot: Placing fractional execs
tl;dr: We are launching a pilot where we partner with a limited number of companies to place fractional execs in the Operations and People spaces. I…
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Mapping your company's year: how to sequence the big processes
Here’s a template for an annual company calendar to schedule recurring activities like business reviews, planning, and perf. You should be able to copy…
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Duct Tape
A founder asked me how she should prioritize which leadership roles to hire first. It led to a conversation about one of my favorite things: duct tape…
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I hate OKRs... and other thoughts about goal setting
I hate OKRs. Let me explain... I believe strongly in having a goal-setting process. The purpose of goal setting in my mind is to ensure that everyone is…
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Continuing the Club for the Glue People
My work-life right now is casually titled “experiments with friends.” I’ve been exploring what I want to do next by (a) focusing on finding joy at work…
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Managing Inside Growing Companies
Working with folks in our Glue People circles has reminded me of a bunch of themes that managers inside of growing companies regularly grapple with so I…
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Things I've learned from years inside startups and scaling companies.
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