The past week has been bazooka filled with an insane torrent of headlines. And Tom Hanks’ tweet felt like the tipping point. Is this real life? How can anyone be sure.. Plainly, the world is different now than it was just a couple weeks ago and we’re all straining to see through to the other […]
So many challenges for all of us on the management journey. This week it is increasingly hard for us to separate our mission of providing actionable evergreen help to those pathfinders from the invisible elephant stampeding around us. A massive intangible wrench thrown into the works of a fully online society in the form of […]
Welp, the fastest growing startup in the world is the Corona virus, pejoratively speaking. Its effects are spreading across the world more rapidly than the stock market can decide which direction it wants to go each morning of the past week and a half. There is a Robinhood pun somewhere in there but, alas, we […]
What are the surface level indicators of a thriving company? Pretend you have no access to growth rates, financial statements, TechCrunch articles, or product demos. Just imagine you walked into an office one day and started observing. Would it be a certain audible buzz? Catered lunches? Flowing kombucha? A wide variety of snacks? Weekly happy […]
Ok so it’s been a long week. This is not a grand piece on influencing others or a pontification on the art of leadership and effectiveness. Nope. This is about something so simple it makes me want to scream, reach through the computer, and grab ahold of the senseless offender every.single.time. it happens. We’re talking […]
You’re on the floor of the Nasdaq as confetti rains down. Filled with pride, you close your eyes and reflect on the time spent toiling and moiling at a company for over four years in order to celebrate its seminal moment. The founders ring the bell and those shares that have slowly vested are now […]
It starts slowly. The sound of a nose being blown. Then perhaps a sudden sneeze. Before you know it, there is contagion across the company floor. It’s that time of year. It’s officially sniffle season. Wherever you are and whoever you work with, everyone has dealt with that heroic colleague who refuses to stay home […]
The internet effectively broke this past Sunday with the shocking news of the tragic death of Kobe Bryant. A basketball giant and complicated pop culture icon. Information and misinformation rocketed around the world at warp speed before the truth could catch up. It was an unprecedented day both in sadness and scale. We also said […]
The British ruled India as a colony from 1858 to 1947. Though sparsely documented, an often repeated parable from that period in popular culture, business, and politics is known as The Cobra Effect. Or, the law of unintended consequences. As the story goes, the British rulers set out to reduce the venomous snake population in […]
Sometimes it’s nice to hear from recruiters, isn’t it? Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside to feel wanted. Chased. Sought after. Peeking over the fence at that seemingly greener grass. The glee one feels when that red button flashes on the upper right corner message icon of your LinkedIn app. Ding! Hope you […]