We are back with our #002 newsletter.
I’m still debating on how to make this more fluid but I believe it will be an ongoing process.
I will break down into two categories: Text & Audio
Text
• Harvard Business Review: Great leaders are Confident, Connected, Committed, and Courageous.
“In 25 years of working with leaders to do all the above, I have found a pattern that I share in my new book, Leading with Emotional Courage, consisting of four essential elements that all great leaders rely on to rally people to accomplish what’s important to them. To lead effectively — really, to live effectively — you must be confident in yourself, connected to others, committed to purpose, and emotionally courageous.”
• Pyramids are tombs for talent.
“We tend to spend a lot of time casting talent and teams around either industry or a certain passion for the product or service that we’re promoting. We tend to think about subject matter expertise almost more than traditional role definition because we feel that brings a lot more to the table. It’s more fun for our people and, from a work perspective, more interesting for the clients. It’s a lot of deep subject matter expertise cast against what the client either is or needs from us, and it’s a little less around the traditional roles.”
“But the squad is more than a loose network of affiliations, it's a coherent body. A second prerequisite of squad formation is self-recognition. It's not you or me. It's Us. We. Ours. This pillar often follows from the first. Squads may start as one-off Telegram channels, but they soon become "The Group Chat," a metonym for the squad itself.”
• First Round Review - The Playbook This Startup Used to Get Their Founders on 100+ Podcasts in 6 Months
“A “podcast tour” is when a brand secures podcast interviews for its founders on shows that its target audience is likely listening to. For a startup, the main value of a podcast tour is education and awareness. This is especially true when you’re building a new product category.”
• Harvard Business Review - The Project Economy has Arrived
“By 2027, some 88 million people around the world are likely to be working in project management, and the value of project-oriented economic activity will have reached $20 trillion.
But research shows that only 35% of the projects undertaken worldwide are successful—which means we’re wasting an extravagant amount of time, money, and opportunity.”
• MIT Sloan Review - Three Steps to Building a Learning Culture That Delivers Innovation
“Many of the biggest, most daunting challenges of our time need technological solutions as quickly as possible. And all over the world, there are teams of scientists, engineers, and business leaders looking to create those solutions. But it takes more than expertise, hard work, and determination to come up with them. It takes a culture that supports continuous learning and daily experimentation.”
• McKinsey - Setting a new bar for online higher education
“We found that to engage most effectively with students, the leading online higher education institutions focus on eight dimensions of the learning experience. We have organized these into three overarching principles: create a seamless journey for students, adopt an engaging approach to teaching, and build a caring network”
Podcast + Videos
• In Depth - Building a hybrid go to Market motion
Amazing content - minute 61:45 - The McKinsey framework.
Lots of info around KPIs, Data-Driven Culture, Leadership, Running meetings, and so on.
• In Depth - How to Find Product Market Fit Before your Start building
Super good. Lots of tips to explore.
• Fabrice Grinda - Amazing - he is so sharp! I agree with most of his vision and I also think psychedelic is one of the hottest spaces right now!
•A16Z - Systems Leadership for Disruptors and Incumbents
• What’s next for the Venture Capital Culture?
I hope to see you all here next week!
Have a great one!