Book: The Score Takes Care of Itself

Time to level up!

Back with a new post from the book, “The Score Takes Care of Itself”, by Coach Bill Walsh.

This post focuses on the power of fostering an environment of excellence. At the core of his framework are his “Standards for Performance”; sustained through teaching, discipline, and continuous improvement.

I hope you enjoy!

Book: Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Time to level up!

Back with a new post from the book, “Good Strategy Bad Strategy”, by Richard P. Rumelt.

This post dives right into the heart of strategy. Diagnosing a key challenge, crafting a guiding policy and developing a set of coherent and coordinated actions for overcoming the challenge at hand.

I hope you enjoy!

Startup Lessons: From Silo to Service

The Problem Until recently, Ubiqua operated in a traditional organizational structure. The type with functional departments and department leaders. After the team grew from 5 to 10, it became more and more difficult to operate in these functional silos. Essentially, each individual ran his own independent operation. We all had our own to-do lists, our…

Startup Lessons: How to Build a Company

One of the reasons I joined Ubiqua was the incredible opportunity to learn; mainly, how to build a company. By joining Ubiqua at such an early time, I’d be able to experience this first hand. Here’s a brief on a couple of the things I’ve learned so far. Q: What I am looking to learn…

Startup Lessons: Managing Market, Vision and Scope

Here’s the situation. Your team’s busy working on X, executing on the ‘roadmap’, but the pressure to grow gets heavy. Engineers are busy trying to ship the next feature. Product is managing the roadmap. And then comes the hard part. A big client has a request. It doesn’t match your product vision; at least in…

Startup Lessons: Thinking About Growth

Growth is King. At any venture, big or small, growth drives the agenda. Failing to grow implies a loss in market opportunity and competitiveness, along with an inevitable end to profitability.  A recent friend of mine gave me some perspective about the challenge of growth. In chatting, he identified the differences between how companies pursue growth,…

Startup Lessons: Bounded by Scope

# Prologue It’s a tough thing to deal with Scope Creep. Clients ask for more than what was initially promised. This is human. It feels good to get more than you bargained for. Scope Creep occurs when the project team ceeds. When the team caves into the pressure of satisfying their client and fulfilling their…

25 Things I’ve Learned in 2015

I finally got around to sitting down and thinking about the past 5 months. Here are a few of the things I’ve learned in 2015: Problem Solving 1. How you define the problem matters more than how you solve it A great solution to the wrong problem is a grandiose waste of time. Spending extra…

Sam Altman’s Startup Advice, Briefly”… Improved

I’ve recently read Sam Altman’s post “Startup advice, briefly“. Here are the gems of wisdom I took from this post… I’ve added my own grouping to help make the lessons more digestible. — From Idea to Project: 1. You should start with an idea, not a company. The stakes are lower and you’re more willing to…