And Goals, Or Goals
When we work to develop new skills or habits, we must always ask ourselves: do these skills naturally complement each other, or are they at cross purposes? For example: I want to exercise more AND...
View ArticleGoodbye Notebook, Hello Notion
For years I carried around a nice, small Moleskin notebook to every meeting. I had various systems, each typically lasting about a year, to distinguish between note-taking content and next steps. Photo...
View ArticleWhy We Need Impact Performance Data
Last week, I published an article in Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) together with Tom, Lindsay and Devin from the 60 Decibels team. Here it is: This is Not an Impact Performance Report. The...
View ArticleLooking When You Know It’s There
Entrepreneurs are famous for seeing the things others cannot. They believe in a truth that seems like fiction to everyone else. For example, AirBnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia failed to raise...
View ArticleThe Willingness to Throw it Out
A lot of my work days are about efficiency. Tearing through my Inbox. Having as few meetings as possible and making them as short as they need to be. An overall feeling and attitude of moving fast and...
View ArticleBecause It’s Inconvenient
We make a plan and commit to something. An initial buzz hits us, as we visualize the results that will come from our hard work. A few days in, our commitment feels awfully inconvenient. The time...
View ArticleClose to the Bone
The more people I’ve gotten to reconnect with this summer—our respite, in the US, between wave after horrible COVID-19 wave—the more I’ve seen a pattern. Each of us, no matter our circumstance,...
View ArticleLet Me Think About That
I’m an engager. Meaning: put a problem, a question, a concern in front of me, my instinct is to dive right in. Always. So, I found it confusing when, a few years ago, a coach I was working with...
View ArticleAwesome Hiring, Awesome Team
I’ve always found First Round Review’s articles to be exceptionally useful. Lately, they are on a roll. Our company, 60 Decibels, is going to be doing a bunch of hiring in the next six months, so I...
View ArticleGood Mistakes, Bad Mistakes, No Mistakes
We all know we’re supposed to be OK with mistakes, that they happen. And yet, if you’re like me, you hate mistakes. You hate making them. And, sometimes, you can’t help being frustrated when those...
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