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Introducing an experiment: A Club for the Glue People
In 2013, I had breakfast with a friend. We were both in our first COO-like roles after Facebook — his at a bigger company, mine at a small start-up. As…
Dec 7, 2022
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October 2022
Some fast thoughts on Business Reviews
Someone sent me an email asking about how I recommend running business reviews (cadence, who attends, format, etc). I jotted down a fast response and…
Oct 27, 2022
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Learners vs Guides: Building Your Leadership Team
This is a post about the single most important thing you can do to make it easier, smoother and more fun to scale past 50 employees (and on to hundreds…
Oct 21, 2022
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Hate to break it to you, but your team is full of under-performers
If you're a leader in an organization that is going through a lot of change or scaling quickly, chances are that every single member of your team is…
Oct 10, 2022
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September 2022
"Who needs to know about this?": Communication as you scale
A while ago, I wrote a post about why it get so hard once you scale past 50 employees. Afterwards, someone asked me what I think the most…
Sep 26, 2022
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Addition vs Subtraction
“Organizations are horrible at subtraction.” Someone said that to me a couple months ago, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. It is…
Sep 19, 2022
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The Trust Battery
I was introduced earlier this year to the concept of the Trust Battery and it has rapidly become one of the metaphors that I rely on regularly. I…
Sep 16, 2022
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July 2022
“Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions
Thanks for reading Lessons! Subscribe to receive new posts. First of all let me say, I seem to only take jobs that I feel super unqualified for, and the…
Jul 26, 2022
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Compensation for start ups: A leveling matrix that scales
A while ago (feels like 100 years, was actually only 8), I wrote a basic compensation guide for a founder I was helping out who was struggling to manage…
Jul 18, 2022
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April 2022
Some Thoughts on Leadership Teams
Hi friends! In terms of who I write for, this is one of those posts that is aimed at founder/CEOs but much of it can likely apply to leaders in bigger…
Apr 13, 2022
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March 2022
Why is scaling past 50 employees so hard?
Hi friends! In terms of who I write for, this is one of those posts that is aimed at founder/CEOs but much of it can likely apply to leaders in bigger…
Mar 23, 2022
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Who I write for
Hi Friends! Sorry for the radio silence. With everything going on in Ukraine and with my own travels, I have been having trouble finding the right…
Mar 20, 2022
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