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Mar 31, 2018

Action Leads to Insight

Tom Chi, one of my dear friends and inventor of Google Glass, preaches in his rapid prototyping workshops that “doing is the best kind of thinking.”

I wholeheartedly agree and have seen this play out in real life many times: Instead of intellectually debating…

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Mar 14, 2018

It is not complicated. It is just hard.

The other day I was invited to give the opening keynote at the strategy offsite of a Fortune 500 company. The speaker after me talked about an internal innovation effort underway at said company — and showed a slide which said:

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Mar 28, 2018

Preparation is Everything

If you have ever seen a good improv theatre show, you know how natural and effortless the interactions between the actors seems to be. As someone who spend a few months learning improvisational theatre, I can tell you — effortlessness comes from diligent preparation. Not rehearsing…

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Mar 11, 2018

The Levels of Listening Jedi Trick

It’s really not that easy to listen well. We are easily distracted. We engage in selective listening, hearing only what we want to hear, our minds acting on a cognitive bias for consistency rather than truth. And that’s just the start.

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Mar 7, 2018

If You Want to Scale — Grow Your Managers

In Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh’s excellent Stanford course on Blitzscaling, they talk about the concept of going from single digit employees, to double-digit, triple digits and so on. Each stage presents its own set of challenges and is radically different…

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Mar 4, 2018

Management by Wandering Around

Usually referred to in a (somewhat) cynical way — and with its own acronym (MBWA) — the particular style of management which sees leader seemingly aimlessly walking around has been around for quite a while. In our hyper-focused, every-minute-counts, todo-list optimized…

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Mar 1, 2018

Selling Shovels

During the dot-com bubble, running my first startup, one of my board members kept making a point which, at the time, I could not hear (as I was too stuck in my head):

In a gold rush, sell shovels.

February 2018

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