Writing
Essays
I write about running venture-backed companies from the inside. These are the ones I send clients most often.
Energy, Not Time
Where your energy peaks at work, and how to build your team around it: energy has an altitude, a healthy team is shaped like a pyramid, and every role has a curve.
The 10 Virtues of Organizational Health and Power
The only ten things worth pursuing when you build a company: three that make it healthy and seven that create defensible advantages.
The Strategic Scorecard
The one-page tool every engagement starts with: a rallying cry, three to six defining objectives, and a weekly green, yellow, red review.
6 Reasons Why OKRs Are Holding You Back
Why most early-stage teams are worse off with OKRs than without them, and what to do instead.
The Talent Scorecard
How to define a role before you hire for it, so you stop hiring people you like and start hiring people who deliver.
Mission: Probable
Writing a mission your team can actually use to make decisions.
One hour. One problem.
Bring the thing that is keeping you up at night. You will leave with a point of view on it either way.
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