Who out there is feeling a bit unmoored? Like even when it’s completely quiet it still feels like there’s shouting in the distance? These are cRaZy times. Politics isn’t really a focus of this digital back room. However, technology companies have been thrust into the epicenter of this historically American hurricane nevertheless.
“They say…the price of my war’s not a price they are willing to pay. Insane.” So goes the opening line of What Comes Next from a comedic King George toward the tail end of Broadway musical Hamilton’s Act I. In our real life American production we have stormed into 2021 with quite the opening act led by just as equal of a buffoon. So this week we’re here to talk about Capitolism. Ahem, Capitalism.
It is the week of Christmas. The pre-eminent cultural holiday in the Western world that encompasses family, kindness, sharing, reconciliation and much much more. For many this year it represents the book end of a long year of challenges. What does Christmas mean to you? One favorite holiday movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, captures the […]
On the Twitter of late it feels like everyone has left SF and decamped to more bountiful lands of greater opportunity. Elon Musk has transported to Texas. Oracle too. Larry went to Hawaii though. VCs to Miami. Others have written OpEds. Still others have shown startling graphs about the effects a move has on a […]
This oh so humbling historic year of our Lord, 2020, is racing toward its close. Companies and leadership teams are no doubt eager to turn the page to 2021. But not all of them.. A lot of managers out there are preparing to deliver tough news.
You accept a big new role at a fast growing company in desperate need of your expertise. For a brief moment you’ll be given the opportunity to redefine yourself.
In the midst of this ongoing presidential election, now stretching into the third day of vote counting, there is a lot of uncertainty about the political future of this country at the executive level. Change is in the air, it’s anxiety inducing, and the unknowns stretch from coast to coast. For distraction sake, let’s play […]
Corporations and politics have two very interesting common characteristics. They are both systems that help organize real people within business and government. And they are both completely imaginary systems made up in our collective minds. As companies prepare for the most charged election in a generation the question most leaders are asking of themselves and […]
Peter Drucker, famed management consultant and apparent inventor of the moniker knowledge worker, once said “the most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said”. With that backdrop, Coinbase’s Founder & CEO Brian Armstrong lit a fire in the startup community after publishing a post about narrowing the focus of the company’s […]
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world” said Archimedes of Ancient Greece. Maybe. A Greek titan of knowledge may have been taken out of context through centuries of telephone & translations. Not to mention the reliability of records. Nevertheless, the idea that Archimedes might […]