An MVP Adds One Missing Piece
An MVP Adds One Missing Piece: a chalk talk on selling the smallest valuable solution first in the context of your overall vision.
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Change Initiatives
Treat Meetings As Crucibles
Founders should treat meetings as crucibles for getting facts, perspectives, and potential courses of action on the table for a full and frank discussion that results in a working consensus.
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The hidden cost of replacing junior engineers with AI
A conversation between Norbert Korny, Jeff Allison, and Sean Murphy on the hidden cost of replacing junior engineers with AI tools.
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How to Influence Executive Decisions with Data
Data scientists and change agents often find themselves producing valuable insights that don’t make it to the decision table. Not because their data or evidence is wrong, but because the message doesn’t land, failing to influence executive decisions. The video explores how teams doing research and analysis can communicate their findings more effectively to executive
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Harbinger or Outlier, Vision or Mirage, Threat or Opportunity
It’s hard to see things as they are and as they will become. Distinguishing between vision or mirage is a perpetual challenge for the entrepreneur.
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Delegating Enables Growth: A Solo Founder’s Experience
Some lessons learned on how delegating enables growth, shared by a solo founder who is now scaling his business with contractors.
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The Messy Order of Robust Communities
Robust communities have a messy order: they have to evolve so they cannot be designed along neat hierarchical lines. Whether you are planning a supplier ecosystem or a user group one marker for robustness is messy order: there is some organization but it’s not cleanly hierarchical.
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Matt Trifiro on Lessons Learned using AI for Marketing
Matt Trifiro, serial entrepreneur and current VP of Marketing at Vapor IO, offers his lessons learned applying AI tools to marketing tasks.
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Six Insights for Intrapreneurs from “Disorganize”
Jonathan Anthony promises 99 actionable ideas for insights for intrapreneurs in his book “Disorganize.” Here are my top six.
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Managing Recurring Problems In Your Startup
Some examples of recurring problems in startups with self-debugging questions to help point you to root cause corrective actions.
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Chalk Talk: How Buildings Learn
A chalk talk on Stewart Brand’s model for how six layers in a building change at different rates from his book “How Buildings Learn.”
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Mark Brinkerhoff: Starting With a Sketch Saves Money
A great short briefing by Mark Brinkerhoff, President of Fusion Design on how starting with a sketch saves money; he uses a simple HVAC design example but the technique is broadly applicable.
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Andrew Grove on Recognizing Reality
An excerpt from Andrew Grove’s “Only the Paranoid Survive” shows Grove and Gordon Moore recognizing reality and exiting a money losing business, the memory business that had brought Intel so much early success.
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Seven Insights from “Solving for Pattern” by Wendell Berry
In “Solving for Pattern,” Wendell Berry writes about organic farming principles. Still, he offers a systems perspective applicable to startups and growing businesses that need to develop both staff and technology to thrive.
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Newsletter V2021 Issue 4: Shared Situational Awareness
In a dynamic environment, situational awareness is an important prerequisite to identify what needs to be done.
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Angel Rampy on Influence Skills for Technical People
What skills do you need to influence the way other people think? Angel Rampy, business coach at Success Through Learning, covers the different levels from which we influence moving us from “telling” to “collaborating”. She shares tips for strengthen our ability to influence others. Here are a couple of interesting video snippets from her
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Three Insights from Dr. Edward Baker’s “Scoring a Whole in One”
This post explores three insights from Dr. Edward Baker’s “Scoring a Whole in One.” First, individuals must understand the enterprise context they operate in; second, leaders must serve and connect; and third, practice is necessary for improvement but does not lead to perfection.
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Markers That Startups Can Use to Identify Early Adopters
Sean Murphy recently explained to a client his perspective on change agents inside a business and the signals that he looks for to identify early adopters.
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Just Sell the Results to Reduce Perception of Risk
Sean Murphy explains to a client why startups should just sell the results to reduce a prospect’s perception of risk in a new tool.
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Scale by Understanding Your Value Stream: Slides and Video Recap
Martha Ryan and Terry Frazier offered a briefing on how to “Scale by Understanding Your Value Stream” at the Lean Culture Meetup on Feb-25-2021. Here is a recap of the event that includes slides and video.
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