Category: Culture
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Care Bears
Startup founders are expected to create something new and original in this world that often requires a new way of thinking, sometimes a complete human paradigm shift. They are funded to think differently. To be different. The irony is that the second these founders raise the money they find themselves under pressure to lead their…
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Team Zero & the Chief-Example-Officer
Lately, I found myself talking with founders a lot about a concept I call “Team Zero”. It is an extremely simple concept to grasp and yet one of the hardest to apply. “Team Zero” means that you, as founders, accept that your company is your creation and that everything you see in it, whether you love…
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Accountability 2.0
In the past year I found myself thinking a lot about accountability. As I was caching founders and teams I noticed that whenever we mentioned the term “accountability” or asked “Who is accountable?” people usually moved uncomfortably in their chairs. Accountability felt like a hot potato no one wanted to hold, and so I kept…