Ben Howoritz’s new book What You Do is Who You Are was released a couple weeks ago and this post comes to you from the halfway point of its pages. It’s a great read about building culture and immediately applicable for anyone who is building anything. Favorite takeaway thus far: virtues > values. Values are […]
Ah, high performers. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. It must have been written in the stars that talent & drama are intertwined for eternity. Ever find yourself in one of these pickles? This week, a request was made of a peer that they needed to play nice with someone on another team. […]
A cool breeze. The changing color of the leaves. Fading sunlight. Nay, not the fall. It’s performance review season! Ohhhhhhhh YEAH. It’s that time of year where human managers turn into synonym hunting mechanical turks just to save themselves from typing leadership, efficiency or growth one more goddamn time.
During a recent conversation with a new manager undergoing the transition from individual contributor, they described a difficulty they were having in holding a new employee to adherence of a certain process. Uh oh. The request was to send this manager a weekly summary of their work by a certain day and time each week. […]
Do you ever get so wound up about something you begin to fantasize about how angrily, powerfully, and venomously you’ll respond against an adversary? Everyone does. It’s only human. The most upsetting tempest in a teapot occurred the other day. But, before the keys could be punched and a loaded e-mail launched into the void […]
The only thing going up faster than unicorn valuations these days is the collective title inflation across the social network of professional white lies, LinkedIn. Where did this start?? Is this recruiter driven? Keeping up with the Joneses? Either way, trying to figure out who people really are and what they’ve actually accomplished is getting […]
The concept of Joy’s Law of Management is blissfully simple and a rock solid elephant to keep in the corner of your mind while managing a multi-dimensional field of battle: “No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else.”
Unless you have been living under a rock these past couple weeks, news in the world of tech & startups has been a DOOZY! Just to name a few… WeWork CEO, Adam Neumann, steps down after a snowball of criticism initiated by the WSJ and then the IPO gets pulled all tied together in a […]
Have you ever walked into a conference room and discovered the meaning of life? It’s rare, but it happens.
There is something so downright strange about how technology de-humanizes our interactions with each other. Perspective lost in communication. First Round Capital runs a tremendous Mentorship program called Fast Track as a part of their community offering. Any manager aspiring to do better, give back and explore new perspectives should check it out. They do […]