Teams work better when they get along. Here's how to make that happen.
In large organizations, culture is key. The values and habits of an organization, and what it rewards and punishes, are the background radiation driving…

February 2023

During times of sparse funding, many startups who are facing headwinds will consider M&A options to get a soft or moderately profitable landing for…
At this stage of technology advancement, most of the good SaaS ideas are already taken. There are still green fields, but the fundraising rampage of the…

January 2023

Teams naturally start to incur management debt as they grow and become more complex, just as codebases incur tech debt. The combined weight of past…
Many have viewed the last 10 years of tech as having been increasingly employee-advantaged. Jobs were plentiful and talent was scarce, and this led to…

December 2022

Enterprise products defend their long-term value by solving really hard problems. To see why, here’s a common enterprise customer lifecycle: You build a…

November 2022

Are you not entertained? Is that not why you are here? It’s been a wild week in Twitter land, as Elon has grabbed the controls of the plane not with the…
In my experience some personal traits can be changed, and some cannot. Mistaking one case for the other causes two of the most common and costly talent…

October 2022

“Negativity bias is a cognitive bias that explains why negative events or feelings typically have a more significant impact on our psychological state…
We’ve written before about how to be a senior leader. But at very senior levels, when you actually run a complete department, there are additional…

September 2022

We’ve spent countless hours discussing topics around building and scaling companies over the years, but the single topic that we’ve probably spent the…