17 2023 May
Write It Down
I was once part of a group of leaders working on a cross-company initiative. We all had different points of view, and every conversation felt...
Read More10 2023 May
Addressing Misaligned Incentives
Photo by Gabriel Gurrola on Unsplash I spent one summer in Washington, D.C., working for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Conservation Service....
Read More03 2023 May
Ask Out Loud
Photo by steffen wienberg on Unsplash Subscribe now My friend was once working on a really large product launch and rebranding. He and his team...
Read More25 2023 April
The Importance of Linchpins, and Why You Should Become One
Photo by Miltiadis Fragkidis on Unsplash Linchpin Noun The most important member of a group or part of a system, that holds together the other...
Read More21 2023 April
Staying Scrappy: Part 2
In my last post, Staying Scrappy, I discussed a recent talk I gave for Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series. The full talk is available here,...
Read More19 2023 April
Staying Scrappy
I recently spoke at Stanford University’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, which features leaders and entrepreneurs in a variety of industries. They let me have free...
Read More11 2023 April
Reading the Room
When I first started getting coaching from Katia, I would often explain to her how frustrating it was for me to work with people at...
Read More04 2023 April
An Open Secret I Wish We Could Talk About
Share A friend and I were once working on the same team for the same manager. We are both minorities in an environment without many...
Read More31 2023 March
How to Become a Connector
Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash Subscribe now The other day, someone said to me, “You are a connector. You put people together and magic...
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