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A company with a purpose
At least once a year I like to go through a what I’m calling a ‘State of the company‘ review that answers questions as if we are starting this company from anew. It should be noted that what I try to avoid is being generic. Avoiding those scenarios like meaningless, adjective-heavy mission statements and [...]
A CEO’s salary measures success?
This weekend I was watching some of the Techcrunch50 video coverage and came across some interesting discussion between Peter Thiel and Mike Arrington. They batted around some different topics but one I found particularly interesting was the discussion of a startup Theil is invested in that is tracking startups metrics for VCs (follow that?) [...]
Betting on the future - Part 2
This post has been held for quite some time and for the sake of finishing a thought, I’m just going to go ahead and post it. You’ve been warned.
This is a continuation of the first post I was writing about ‘Betting on the future‘ and the question was left of why not [...]
Betting on the future - Part 1
I’ve mentioned in a couple of conversations with friends that I feel like I have just thrown a rock in a pond and I’m waiting to see what kind of splash it’s going to make when hitting the water.
You see the rock there? That rock symbolizes something exciting and scary for me. That rock [...]
Do you use your whitespace?
I’ve been thinking about this topic for a few days now and wanted to talk about how people need to properly use their whitespace (time) each and everyday and how it needs to be cherished to do things like are most important to you. Would love to here your thoughts, comment below OR @bradgarland [...]
Is Delegation Just Laziness?
I was talking with someone that works for me the other day and they asked me how to handle a particular situation with a client of ours. I knew how we should handle the situation but I wanted them to take the reins so in the event this happened again, they didn’t have to [...]
People need feedback, even if it’s criticism.
I know this title is a bit of a ‘no brainer’ but it’s not as easy to know when to implement it.
Last week we had a 4-day retreat in Angelfire, NM. We planned half of it play and half work. We structured it in a way that it was a little bit of both [...]
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