Great talk by John Doerr from 2015. If I had to simplify big lessons over the course of my career it would be to: 1) work on a meaningful mission, with Missionaries || The difference between Mercenaries vs. Missionaries (28:08) 2) be very diligent about ensuring the leaders and teams…

I wanted to take a moment to step back and: 1) celebrate everything that the Workit community has done and learned through two fellowships (Workit) 2) capture some of our hypotheses coming into these Fellowships 3) set the course for the future of our community as we look ahead. HOW…

What is past is prologue. In 2016, it was clear automation/AI and labor marketplaces would transform the employability, re-skilling and mobility of countless Americans. <2016 White House report>. And yet our nation’s greatest futurists in Silicon Valley seemed oblivious to the waning economic mobility of Americans and the problem that presents for our Union. Where…

From YCombinator Blog Post: What’s the Second Job of a Startup CEO? “The transition from “Doer-in-Chief” to “Company-Builder-in-Chief”… “When you’ve been a successful Doer-in-Chief, it’s hard to stop. It’s hard to stop coding, designing product specs, and interacting with customers on a daily basis. It’s hard to stop answering support…

Was struck today by Accenture’s Liquid Workforce report and their prediction that by 2025 we will see at least one new global 2000 company with *no* full-time employees outside of the C-Suite. Living in LA for many years, I appreciated the analogy to the Hollywood system. …

From Martin Luther King’s A Time to Break Silence “These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression and out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born. I am convinced that if…