Creating Organizational Strategy
The importance of strategy in organizations and challenges the traditional thinking that those in leadership positions are best positioned to make strategic decisions.
Why Leaders Should Speak Last
if you’re about to speak at a meeting, consider speaking last. By doing so, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the issues, promote diversity of thought, and ensure that everyone’s voice is heard.
Good To Great: how organizations get better
My personal summary, analysis and interpretation of the book ‘Good to Great’ by Jim Collins.
Why not taking a decision is also a decision
One of the most common mistakes made by organizations is avoiding decisions altogether. By not making a decision, the organization is essentially choosing to remain stuck in its current state, and inaction can often lead to missed opportunities or even worse outcomes.
Things they don’t teach in school but should
The sole purpose of education seems to be focused on acquiring specific knowledge of the external world, but that world changes at a rapid rate while what is unchanging is the human spirit. The more technologically advanced we become the more important is to learn to be a better human.
Why I love a small phone
Small phones appeal to my innate desire for minimalism. Minimalism is the avoidance of excess and a large phone just screams excess.
What is Leadership?
A leader is someone who acts according to his core values to realize a new bold future that everyone cannot see yet.
Why things are never equal
Think hard and choose when you come to these forks along the road, as not all paths leads to the same places.
The One Key to Employee Onboarding Success
The single most important thing to get right for successful new employee onboarding
Why your Powerpoint deck sucks
Some ideas from my experience creating 100s of presentations and sitting in even more of them on improving your powerpoint decks you create so that it is powerful and impactful and you are able to get the outcomes you want out of the presentation.
Building a Highly Aligned, Loosely Coupled company
Building a highly aligned, loosely coupled organization in five not-so-easy steps
Running an efficient status meeting
The oft-criticized dysfunctional meeting you hear about most often are all Status Meetings. But in case you need to have one.. here’s how.
Improving Different Meeting Types
The various types of meetings and specific ways to improve them.
Improving Meetings
There are two primary reasons to improve meetings across any organization. Understanding meetings Breaking the above down into sections: When to Schedule Meetings Meetings are the most expensive type of communication in an organization as it is synchronous. When I mean synchronous I mean that the people really have to all find the time to […]
Don’t make resolutions for the New Year, have goals instead
It is common to see people making New Year’s resolutions like ‘Be more healthy’, ‘Excercise more’, ‘Read more’ etc. Typically these do next to nothing to help you be more motivated. Instead have more specific goals in mind when you end the year. For example, say to yourself that you want to have read 10 […]
The best investment is in yourself
When discussing investment, the most frequent item of discussion is always about what hot stock is having a run right now or what latest trend is worth putting your money in. (Bitcoin, NFTs anyone?) Most people ignore the best investment available at any given time. Themselves. “Your best investment is yourself. There is nothing that […]
Things they should teach in school – Managing Money
In David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, one of the most important characters in the book next to the eponymous hero is Mr. Wilkins Micawber. His famous quote: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. Although this was written […]
Standardize your tech stack
As your company grows, it might be tempting to diversify into many different tech stacks. A more diverse technical team with different backgrounds and experiences will naturally want to start bringing the tools they have used before in previous jobs. While there is nothing innately wrong in that, be aware of what you are doing […]
Things are always falling apart
One of the things you learn about in high school is entropy. Entropy is basically the disorder in any system and that always increases with time. This concept of physics surprisingly applies to business and life in general as well. You need an enormous amount of energy to keep a system in order. That means […]
Why you should work at small companies
Early on you might be lucky enough to be able to choose between different career paths including choices between small and large companies that you could work for. While the lure of a glittering career at a large company is understandable: prestigious name recognition, great salary and benefits and an almost surefire guarantee of company […]