Instead of asking, when will XYZ be done? To which everyone is uncomfortable answering. Too short and I will run out of time. Too long and the boss will be unhappy. Ask instead: At what date would we be shocked if XYZ had not happened yet? What is the soonest we would be surprised to start seeing tangible results from XYZ? -I can’t remember the source but it was from a guest on MFM Continue reading How to get a proper Timeframe from employees.
This post is copy and paste from Shaan Puri’s post This post is all about the in’s and out’s of how I approached finding my operator for the fund and why it’s so important. Blush, use these frameworks and strategies to find your own operator or reverse engineer it to land your dream gig…. Why do i care about this? Because when you have a good operator, it feels like magic. You wake up and every day the business is getting better. All the stuff you hated to do or sucked at doing – this person is actually good at. … Continue reading Recruit a good operator
This is a copy and paste from this blog post of Stewart Butterfield. Build Something People Want We know that we have built something which is genuinely useful: almost any team which adopts Slack as their central application for communication would be significantly better off than they were before. That means we have something people want. However, almost all of them have no idea that they want Slack. How could they? They’ve never heard of it. And only a vanishingly small number will have imagined it on their own. They think they want something different (if they think they want … Continue reading We don’t sell saddles here.
In one kind of way he can teach me. Everyone has something in which he/she is better than you. Be respectful and humble towards everyone. -Dale Carnegie Continue reading Every man is my superior in a way.
You never build a company. You build the teams that build the company. Building companies is not a skill, building teams is. -Michael Jordan Continue reading Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
This is a copy of a blog post from Amy Thibodeau One of the best pieces of advice I have for people who are early on in a career in R&D is to learn to hold tension and sit with it, rather than seeing tension as negative or to be resolved. When I look back, I can see that many of the things I struggled with earlier in my career came down to a worldview that assumed tension is bad. I spent a lot of time trying to resolve things that didn’t need resolution rather than recognizing tension as an … Continue reading Tensions don’t need to be resolved
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