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Six Questions Every Startup Must Answer
I just finished reading one of the most pragmatic and thoughtful books I’ve ever read about building companies (and I’ve read quite a few). It’s called The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps...
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A Good Chin
This morning, I randomly met an undefeated Welterweight boxer named Karim “Hard Hitta” Mayfield at a yoga class in San Francisco. Karim is 15-0-1 with 9 knock outs. We started talking, and I asked him...
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Want Better Communication? Stay on Your Side of the Net
We’ve all been told throughout our lives that communication is the key to making relationships work. And while that’s a nice sentiment and certainly true, it isn’t all that helpful in understanding...
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Does Everyone In Your Startup Know Where They Stand?
If you have the privilege of being a manager, one of your primary responsibilities is to ensure that everyone on your team knows where they stand. It’s the right thing to do, and even if it weren’t, it...
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How To Give Feedback That Wins You FANS
Over the last year or so, I’ve developed and delivered what I call a ‘Startup Leadership 101’ program for some of the fastest-growing technology companies in Silicon Valley. I noticed that as startups...
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31 Days of Kindness
One of my core values is kindness. While I try to be intentional about being a kind and generous person, I’m aware of how often I get caught up in the everyday hustle and bustle of building a business,...
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Days 1 – 10 of Kindness
At the beginning of December, I decided to do 31 Days of Kindness, in which I would do at least one intentional act of kindness each day and then write about them every week or so. Here’s my report...
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Days 11 – 19 of Kindness
At the beginning of December, I decided to do 31 Days of Kindness, in which I would do at least one intentional act of kindness each day and then write about them every week or so. On December 10th, I...
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Days 20 – 31 of Kindness
Happy New Year! I committed to doing 31 days of kindness in December and reporting on it, and here’s my final report. From December 20th – December 31st, I did the following acts of kindness: Made an...
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Hacking 1-on-1s
I’m often asked for advice on conducting effective one-on-ones. I was recently speaking to Monisha Perkash, CEO of LUMOback, and she told me about a simple technique she uses for conducting one-on-one...
View ArticleWhy Culture Should Be Your Central Focus
I recently was asked to write a guest post for FounderDating’s FounderTalk series, in which I shared about my own challenges in building culture at the startup I co-founded, and some of the lessons I...
View ArticleThe Entrepreneur’s “Not Enough” Trap – and How To Avoid It
I recently published an article in Fast Company about transcending “I’m not enough” to build a company from a place of sufficiency, love and service. Let me know what you think… The Entrepreneur’s Not...
View ArticleLEVERAGE: A 2-Day Leadership Workshop for Startup CEOs
I’ve had the privilege of working with some extraordinary entrepreneurs over the last 5 years helping them become the kind of leaders they want to be, scale their companies and building strong, aligned...
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Say goodbye to soul-crushing meetings
I realize I haven’t posted in some time, and my apologies for that. In addition to coaching startup CEOs and helping startups build and scale awesome cultures, I’ve been fairly heads down working on a...
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The Discipline Illusion
My clients are some of the most accomplished, ambitious, driven people I’ve ever met – founders and CEOs of some of the most successful, fast-growing startups in the world. And yet, too often they fail...
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Six Questions Every Startup Must Answer
I just finished reading one of the most pragmatic and thoughtful books I’ve ever read about building companies (and I’ve read quite a few). It’s called The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps...
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A Good Chin
This morning, I randomly met an undefeated Welterweight boxer named Karim “Hard Hitta” Mayfield at a yoga class in San Francisco. Karim is 15-0-1 with 9 knock outs. We started talking, and I asked him...
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Want Better Communication? Stay on Your Side of the Net
We’ve all been told throughout our lives that communication is the key to making relationships work. And while that’s a nice sentiment and certainly true, it isn’t all that helpful in understanding...
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Does Everyone In Your Startup Know Where They Stand?
If you have the privilege of being a manager, one of your primary responsibilities is to ensure that everyone on your team knows where they stand. It’s the right thing to do, and even if it weren’t, it...
View ArticleUPCOMING WORKSHOP: Define & Align Your Company’s Values
I’ve had the privilege of working with some extraordinary startups over the last 7 years to help them build strong, aligned cultures. I’ve done workshops for venture fund portfolios to teach the...
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