Sep 29, 2021
Today's episode focuses on the value of experience when starting a new business.
Often, we'll hear about start-up success stories that are driven by founders with no prior history in that sector. I talk through why that happens and how that should probably be more the norm than the exception.
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Sep 22, 2021
Today's podcast talks about our ideas of perfection, specifically in people.
I relate a war story from my consulting days about how reputations of specific individuals can be both accurate and inaccurate at the same time. The quicker we learn that, the easier it becomes to forge solid working relationships.
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Sep 15, 2021
Today's podcast focuses on the idea of silos within our organizations and teams.
There will always be tensions among different teams and that's actually not a bad thing. It's only bad when we let those tensions stop us from figuring out how to work together. When we truly collaborate, we're able to create great art.
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Sep 8, 2021
Today's podcast takes on the idea of having allies versus accomplices.
That is, when we're growing something of consequence, social or economic, real progress is made when we have people willing to give - at some cost or risk to themselves - to further our collective goals. How they become accomplices is the real...
Sep 1, 2021
Do you expect a musician to be good at financial analysis? Do you expect a financial analyst to be good to creative work? Of course not. Then why do we define "good" in our teams in specific, narrow ways?
Today's episode speaks to focus on our colleague's strengths and not class people as good or otherwise based on...