leadership
New leaders often struggle in holding people, especially when they were recently peers, accountable to perform at a certain level. This is especially hard in organizations that don't have clearly defined success criteria for a role or specific leader. As a new leader, it's important to
leadership
The idea that bad news doesn't age well is likely obvious to everyone -- if you're a parent, you want your kids to share the failed test ASAP, and not a month later. "Bad news isn't wine. It does not enhance with age&
life
I recently listened to a Tim Ferriss podcast, where he discussed the parenting approach/concepts of Sovereign Child with Naval Ravikant and Aaron Stupple. It was quite a provocative set of ideas -- the core of the approach is to treat children like little adults, giving them significant autonomy to
leadership
Veteran Institute for Procurement (VIP) is a great organization that teaches leadership, management, and Government Contracting best practices to Veteran-owned small business leaders. They are a great organization helping Veteran entrepeneurs, and I always enjoy supporting their great mission. I attended a VIP course way back in 2010 (on behalf
books
My kids are still young, so I have a few more years before I'll be recommending adult-level non-fiction, but I was thinking recently about what books will be at the top of my list to recommend to my kids. My current list of top recommendations for them are:
CIO
Trying to keep up with the fast-moving world of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) these days isn't easy -- here are a few news subscriptions I've found useful: * I find the TLDR email newsletters great surveys of news, including the AI one (and several others) * The AI
career
I teach a class to some of the Veteran entrepreneurs in the Veteran Institute for Procurement (VIP) programs, and I'm starting to review the structure I use to teach a class on scaling your business (see my How to Grow Business Value presentation slides from last year for
lessons-learned
After hearing Oliver Burkeman on a podcast last month, I listened to his Meditations for Mortals audiobook and was blown away -- it felt like he was talking directly to me through the book. As I listened to the book, I was struck with the (incredibly rare for me) desire
miscellaneous
A few months ago I saw Scott Galloway's impactful TED talk How the US is Destroying Young People's Future -- he makes some impactful points with some powerful graphs: I then ran into this podcast (see below) interview of him, where Scott talks about how American
leadership
This is an old 2017 interview with Stewart Brand, which is a great listen -- I loved Tim and Stewart's discussion of the farewell words of the Whole Earth Catalog "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." It's inspiring to be reminded to keep curiousity and drive
miscellaneous
I listened to this podcast interview (Art of Manliness podcast) with Oliver Burkeman recently, and it was great. As someone who loves to make lots of long lists (e.g., todo lists, books to read, browser tabs to read), which is overwhelming, I really enjoyed the idea of shifting how
leadership
If you work, especially early in your career, only on high-maturity organizations (e.g., teams, projects, departments), you miss out a lot on learning how to build and sustain a high maturity organization. Working on that "red program" or in that struggling department forces you to really understand