Sometimes It’s Not the Execution
In case of bad results, we blame the execution. My client had what we would certainly call a stretch goal. Actually, more like a Big Very Hairy Super-Audacious Goal, to […]
Strategy When the Well Runs Dry
We are not in a recession. But the economic conditions are erratic. At best, they’re dangerously uncertain, at worst, foreboding. This is especially tough if you are a founder in […]
The Upside of Anxiety
We often think of anxiety in negative terms. And of course, it can be debilitating and miserable. But it can also be a tool that you leverage, either for your […]
Pigeonholing People
No time to read? Watch the video here. When I finished the last article I sent you about apophenia—seeing non-existent patterns in data—I knew that I had only touched on […]
There is No Message in That Latte
What happens when you base your strategy on a pattern that isn’t actually there? Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer founded Fabulis, a social network for gay men. In 2009 they transitioned […]
Private Strategy
Often, when I first ask startup founders about their strategies, they usually tell me what their goals are for the year. Or they provide a laundry list of projects that […]
The Gathering Snowball of Goals
There is one thing about which we can be very certain at the beginning of every new year. Roughly 75% of New Year’s resolutions will be forgotten by March. Of those that […]
Favorite Things Holiday 2022
When most of my own clients disappear, leaving out of office messages like breadcrumbs, I figure it’s time for the annual Favorite Things edition of the blog! One great thing […]
It’s The Employee’s Fault!
We’re at that point in the year when if you haven’t already developed your strategy for 2023, at the very least you are reviewing the results for the past year. […]
Janus Strategy
An auto-antonym is a word that has at least 2 meanings that mean the opposite of each other. For example, one definition of “sanction” is to disallow. But another is […]