(Extracted from Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook by Dan Shapiro) Company cultures are echoes of their leadership, so if you are trying to lay the groundwork for the culture of your startup, you will need to...
(Extracted from Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook by Dan Shapiro) Most companies boast of their “company culture” thinking that it’s the thing that makes their company wonderful. It’s not. Most companies...
(Extracted from The Messy Middle by Scott Belsky) The term “culture” is casually thrown around as if it can be designed in a conscious way: a cocktail hour here, a foosball table there. But culture is not in...
(Extracted from a smart bear by Jason Cohen) The rule of thumb is that it takes 3-6 months to hire a really good person. Why so long? Good people are rare, so it takes a while to dig them up. Like truffles. Or...
(Extracted from a smart bear by Jason Cohen) Introspective young founders appreciate this, and often the stated solution is “delegation,” as defined by: I’ll do it myself, then I’ll understand it,...
(Extracted from Scaling Up by Verne Harnish) To get to 10 employees, founders must delegate activities in which they are weak. To get to 50 employees, they have to delegate functions in which they are strong! In...
(Extracted from Startup CEO by Matt Blumberg) If you hire people who complement your strengths, you’ll never grow. Do the opposite: shore up your weaknesses with people who excel where your talents are lacking....
(Extracted from Jeff Bezos 1997 Letter to Amazon shareholders) Some decisions are consequential and irreversible or nearly irreversible – one-way doors – and these decisions must be made methodically,...
(Extracted from Principles by Ray Dalio) 1+1=3. Two people who collaborate well will be about three times as effective as the two of them operating independently because they will see what the other might miss,...
(Extracted from an article by Janet Choi published on Buffer) According to Bezos, the ideal is the “two pizza team:” if a team couldn’t be fed with two pizzas, it was too big. Social...
