Don’t Baby Your Employees

One of the more curious facets of how people are being managed is that often companies make decisions for them. Generally this makes sense (employees should not worry about paying the rent for the office building or figuring out which electricity provider to choose) — but often…

What Would You Do With $20M?

Here’s in interesting conundrum — again and again I meet entrepreneurs who whine about startup XYZ raising stupid amounts of money while they are having a hard time closing their angel/seed/series A round. When I ask them what they would do if they would get “stupid amount of…

Your Culture

The best companies usually have a very strong corporate culture. Culture is something which you have to live and breath every single day. You have to lead by example. Talk about it often and extensively — and make sure you publicly live your values and believes.

The (Heretic) Network — Part II

Nope. Not part II of the dreadful movie (“All new! This time it’s even more epic! Watch the drama as a company without revenue goes public! The Network — Part II: Rise of the Twitter Fail Whale.” ;)) but our own Heretic Network:

A Heretic Offer

Today I’ve got a personal offer from our fellow Heretic and my dear former Mozilla colleague Matej Novak for all of us:

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Heretics,

You may know me as a copywriter, but I’m also currently learning some speaker coaching…

Relational Curation

By now we should all know how important our network is. And it’s not about the size of our network but about the quality of our relationships — this is not a game of “who collected the most contacts” but “who cultivated genuine, meaningful relationships with a group of awesome people”.

It All Has To Fit

Recently I was asked to look at a business of a friend of mine and provide some candid feedback. He has a strong vision for where he wants to go and what the business should look like. And I would argue that he even has a decent plan to get there.