Quick Hits

Feed of mostly Technology, Managment, and Innovation-related posts, but randomness may sneak in...

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Why Most Startups Suck At PR — Life Learning

And What You Can Do To Fix It To Start Getting More Press Right Now

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Many startup businesses — tech or otherwise — fail. In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tri…

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Lead, Follow or Get the Fuck Out of the Way — Both Sides of the Table

Lead —

LEAD “Leaders have well-formed opinions that go against the grain, the temerity to sell their vision to skeptics, the tenacity to stick to their ideas when they are inevitably criticized, the resiliency to wake every day when they’re being kicked by everybody for their beliefs but also the willingness to look at data and re-chart their course when they got it wrong.”

FOLLOW “In every team you need the majority of people who excel at their job functions. They are great at their respective fields whether they be marketing, sales, programming, PR, whatever. People running these job functions are also leaders — don’t get me wrong — on each team you still need leaders & followers. You simply can’t have a team of people all pulling in different directions and death by a thousand cuts is having multiple departments all moving in their own direction.”

GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY “Dissenters don’t get to be “back benchers.” They don’t get to yell from the peanut gallery but never own results or the consequences of decisions. Dissenters don’t get to second guess but never lead.”

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5 Ways Successful People Become More Innovative Every Day

5 Ways Successful People Become More Innovative Every Day: Here's how to get more creative and more innova...

My favorite:

“3. They Learn About Anything and Everything”

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What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us About Life

How to take a page from entrepreneurs and take risks and experiment in all areas of life

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10 Signs You're a Real Leader (Even if Your Title Doesn't Reflect It)

10 Signs You're a Real Leader (Even if Your Title Doesn't Reflect It):

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5 Brilliant Books On Creativity

These books will equip you to be brilliant when it matters most.

More books to add to the stack I have already...

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4 Ways to Avoid Killing Your New Startup

Launching a company requires a solitary mindset.

“If you’re preparing to launch a new business, it’s worth learning which are the most common “startup killers” so you can avoid them.”

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Hardware is hard: How we built a hardware startup with two engineers and some free time

Hardware is hard. Building a hardware startup is even harder. The good news is that the staggering amount of innovation in rapid prototyping, 3D printing and..

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How GE Exorcised the Ghost of Jack Welch to Become a 124-Year-Old Startup

A decade after taking over, Jeff Immelt’s long bet on the Internet of Really Big Things seems to be paying off.

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The Very First Mistake Most Startup Founders Make

Rigid equity splits cause problems down the line.

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A 10-Year Study Reveals What Great Executives Know and Do

You can learn all of them.

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9 Communication Habits That All Successful Leaders Have

At the heart of successful leadership and great business is great communication.

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Here's the formula one tech startup uses to determine all non-negotiable employee salaries

Social media company Buffer uses an equation for everyone's salary — even the CEO's.

Interesting take on open-book salaries.

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Reduce Passive-Aggressive Behavior on Your Team

Encourage the right kind of conflict.

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Many unicorns, start-ups with billion-dollar valuations, have a shiny veneer of revenue growth but lack a competitive advantage for long-term value.

Competition killed the Unicorn Age.

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Good CEOs aren’t busy — Personal Growth

How to grow from a 5 person company to a 500 person company.

Great summary of the evolution of a CEO’s role as the company grows from 5 to 500 people.