Leadership For Scale

Lately I have been thinking a lot about how to massively scale an organization and its outputs — particularly when you…

Headlines vs. Trend Lines

Former US President Bill Clinton once said:

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines

It is a valuable insight — particularly in both the exponential as well as the somewhat tumultuous times we live in. It…

How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything

A long time ago a mentor of mine gave me some advice on both my behavior as well as on hiring people for my first startup:

“How you do anything is how you do everything.”

You Are Right Where You Are Meant To Be

Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new’ish CEO recently said in an interview about his long career at the company, that the best advice he ever received was from a mentor who told him that he should look at every job or position he currently holds like the one he was…

How You Finance Your Growth Determines Your Future

In today’s world, where it seemingly has become cool to finance your startup through Venture Capital, and many entrepreneurs do not even seem to consider alternative funding sources or merely different ways of building a company, it feels…

Don’t Fail. Practice Rate-Based Learning Instead.

The adage is that only 1 in 10 startups succeed (which is likely not true — the real numbers are pretty much all over the place depending on what you measure and in which industry your startup is). A rule of thumb says that ideas have a 5%…

Rethinking People

If you have ever worked for a company which was big enough to have to organize their people (or build one), you will have encountered the Human Resources (HR) department.

It is a pretty weird, backward and industrial way of thinking — assuming that humans (people) are…