The Silicon Valley Junto -- an intellectual discussion society that Chris and I run -- met a few weeks ago around the topic Once Upon a Business...The Role of Storytelling in Leadership, Management, and Entrepreneurship.David Cowan kicked it off with an oral telling of a story he recounted on his...
Dick "da wizard" Costolo, CEO of FeedBurner, has a great post up contrasting two schools of thought around hiring:Briefly, the "No False Positives" school of hiring says that bad hires are worse than no hire because bad employees infect the company with all sorts of issues. Better to march on...
Ive posted before about why its a shame our obsession with "consistency" prevents people from changing their mind. The John Kerry flip-flop saga illuminated this obsession. Daniel Gross has a piece on Slate about U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney and how his corporate success taught him that changing your views...
A friend mentioned Herzbergs theory of motivation to me today. Herzberg says there are two kinds of motivational concerns: true motivators and hygiene factors:Herzberg (1959) constructed a two-dimensional paradigm of factors affecting peoples attitudes about work. He concluded that such factors as company policy, supervision, interpersonal relations, working conditions,...
Ive launched a new project: Business Rules of Thumb -- its a public wiki to track useful rules of thumb from negotiation to marketing to presentations to PR. Please contribute rules of thumb to the wiki! The password is: "thumb".Some of the content is taken with permission from Seth Godins...
Great market timing -- that is, releasing a product when the market is ready for mass adoption -- can make up for poor execution. Great execution cannot make up for poor market timing.In general, I believe technology companies overrate their ability to accelerate an adoption curve and underrate the natural...
Jason Mendelson recalls this quote: "I love backing first time CEOs because they don’t know what they cant do and never limit themselves."Reminds me of a conversation I had with Auren Hoffman a couple weeks ago. We theorized the best time to start a company was around age 27. On...
Kathy Sierra recently hit on one of the themes of this blog which is "randomness". She notes that adding randomness to your product or service can be a wonderful idea. Products should be neither fully predictable nor chaotic: just look at the iPod shuffle.When the iPod Shuffle first came out,...
Anonymous Lawyer by Jeremy Blachman is simply hilarious. Its a satirical novel written in the form of blog entries and internal emails by a hiring partner at a big LA law firm. A must-read for anyone in a law firm or considering that career path. Heres the fake law firms...
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