“When people struggle with a difficult task, using a brand can help them perform better. For example, people who drank water from a Gatorade cup exercised harder and longer.” | learn more
“There’s one kind of opinion I’d be very afraid to express publicly. If someone I knew to be both a domain expert and a reasonable person proposed an idea that sounded preposterous, I’d be very reluctant to say “That will […]
“[Jeff Wilke] built Amazon alongside Jeff Bezos for 22 years. Now he is analyzing the operations playbooks and early decisions that made Amazon so powerful.” | learn more
“What great Founders do, that others do not, is examine the balance between speed and quality, in order to make confident hiring decisions for their company.” | learn more
Fred Wilson discusses why some companies lose value after a founder leaves, while others don’t suffer the same fate. “I like to keep things simple and in my simple mind, leadership comes in two flavors, visionary leadership and operational leadership. […]
An insightful perspective on organizational productivity. “In 1992 the economist Peter Sassone published a study of workflow in large US corporate offices. He found that the more senior a person was, the more likely they were to do a bit […]
“The more complex or valuable is whatever you’re trying to sell, the more important it is for you to build a world around that idea, where other people can walk in, explore, and hang out – without you having to […]
“A small group of postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates inadvertently formed a longitudinal study contrasting expected productivity levels with actual productivity levels. Over the last nine months, our group self-reported 559 tasks, dates, and completion times – expected and actual.” | learn […]
Why is it so hard to grow SMBs by large multiples? The author Daryl Starr invests in small businesses at Little Engine Ventures. | learn more
“Prefer to work on things you can show. Prefer to work where people can see you. Prefer to work on things you can own.” | learn more