February 2012
3 posts
Looking up to failures
When is the last time you attended an event where the panel was stacked with failures? I’m not talking about the people that made a few minor mistakes as we all do, before they eventually hit it big, but really smart people that screwed something up big-time to the point that it completely failed and never recovered. That’s the event I’d pay to attend because you’re...
Delegation abuse
I was planning to focus this week’s blog post on the dangers of learning from success, but I got some feedback from my earlier post dismissing the overused management act of delegation that I want to discuss.
While delegation certainly has its place at work, my point here is it’s totally abused in business. Believe it or not, it’s possible to be a great leader without...
Velocity trumps magnitude
A few nights ago I caught up with a friend / investor / technology executive traveling through NYC.
We had a great chat about business and the merits of building something truly huge (home run) versus a series of well executed, but smaller businesses / projects / deals (doubles or triples). It’s hard for most of us to get excited about building something small, but we all realize there are...