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The Heretic

The Heretic is Pascal Finette’s insights into leadership in exponential times. For entrepreneurs, corporate irritants and change makers. Raw, unfiltered and opinionated — delivered straight to your inbox. You will like it. → https://theheretic.org

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Mar 22, 2021

Beware the Dunning-Kruger Effect

A conversation during today’s session of be radical’s FutureFWD program reminded me of the (in)famous…

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Jul 22, 2019

Forget T-Shapes

For a while now folks (especially those loosely connected to people management) have been talking about “T-Shaped People”: The fabled creature which is both a generalist and specialist at the same time. A concept I never fully understood — maybe as I never really encountered someone who is merely a…

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Jan 9, 2018

When Hiring Look For Distance Traveled

One of the hardest things (at least for me) is hiring people. The way the system works is just weird: A stranger applies for a job for reasons and motivations unbeknownst to you. You review their CV (which on average exaggerates their accomplishments), get on…

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Nov 12, 2017

Scaling Your Startup And The Bozo Explosion

I am currently reading Dan Lyons’ hilarious book “Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble” in which he processes his time at Cambridge, Massachusetts’ based startup HubSpot.

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

Oct 29, 2017

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.”

Pascal Finette in The Heretic

May 14, 2017

Hire A Few Very Smart People

Most startups have to deal with a common set of constrains: Little to no money. Few to no resources and customers. And very few people working for the company.

People’s skills, like most other things in life, are distributed along a normal distribution…