Depth of experience doesn’t guarantee that you’ll be a great leader. Experience gives you a refined skillset, deep familiarity with industry norms and cycles, and knowledge...

The smaller your company is, the more important it is that your leaders are transparent.  Transparency doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Some people worry that providing...

There’s a reason “quiet quitting” has taken a front-and-center role in professional discourse.  The reason, in a word: uncertainty. Whether or not you call this a...

Founders are bullies.  Our key strengths are self-motivation, ambition, and charisma, but these can often come off as intimidation, arrogance, and bullying. I know it firsthand....

My company just had its midyear reviews.  I was pleased to see that most of the feedback I got as CEO was positive. People especially appreciated...

I owe our senior leadership team’s cohesion in part to comedian Mike Birbiglia. For our company’s first remote offsite, my Chief of Staff suggested hiring Mike...

Life may be a marathon, but innovation is a never-ending series of sprints.  As 2022 progresses, companies are sprinting into a much-changed, ever-changing world. Web3, NFTs,...

Though she stood at only 4’10”, Madeleine Albright was always the most commanding presence in the room (I know from experience). As an immigrant with political...

The traditional mentor-mentee relationship model has a problem: incentives.  Or, more precisely, a lack thereof. People tend to become mentors out of a desire to “give...