Leadership & Craft·7 min
The quiet discipline of operating leadership
The best operating leaders are quiet on the outside and rigorous on the inside. The volume is misleading.
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Leadership & Craft·8 min
Hiring for the grain: building teams that compound
The best hires don't fight the grain or surrender to it. They read it and add to it.
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Leadership & Craft·8 min
What CTOs get wrong about scale
Scale is rarely a technology problem. It is almost always an operating problem dressed up as a technology problem.
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Leadership & Craft·8 min
Founder-mode vs operator-mode
Founder-mode and operator-mode aren't opposites. They're alternating muscles. Knowing which to use, when, is the executive job.
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Leadership & Craft·7 min
The craft mindset for modern operators
Operating leadership is a craft. Crafts have masters, apprentices, tools, and standards. Most companies forget all four.
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