I hate the term minimum viable product. No customer wants something that is merely viable. Viable implies “meh”. I want to build things customers love, even if it is just a slice of a much bigger … Read more
Hiring is a high-consequence prediction made from incomplete, biased, and subjective evidence, so a leader’s job is to squelch the noise, amplify the signal, and make judgment inspectable.
I talk about this so often in coaching that I sometimes forget whether I ever wrote it down. I don’t think I have, so here goes… The 18-Month Rule Yesterday I asked a founder whether we … Read more
An interview-prep app: select the principle you want to test, get example questions and guidance. Hire and no-hire example sheets at Junior, Senior, and Exec.
Excellence in organizations starts and ends with hiring. Most leaders agree in principle. Very few behave as though they believe it.
Effective leaders master the skill of choosing memorable terms, defining them precisely, and using them with unreasonable consistency. I call these load-bearing terms: words and phrases that hold up part of the structure. Remove one and something falls down.
This week the argument found a name. Uncle Bob Martin, who started coding in the late 60s and wrote the book on clean code, posted that his current strategy is to not read any of the … Read more
If you want help writing a 5Ps, use the 5Ps app. It’s a prompt you paste into an agent. It writes a first draft and revises it.