3 Hacks to Mastering Any Skill Quickly
Cultivating a learning mindset is a key skill in any field.
A 3x3x3 Perspective for getting your Vision, Strategy, and Product aligned
I’m sure you’ve run into Simon Sinek’s TED talk on the Golden Circle, where he made a case for how great leaders communicate differently — leading first with their **why** (or purpose), then descri...
Expose Your Constraints Before Chasing Additional Resources
We all hustle, struggle and fight to acquire more project resources. But ironically, when we have these resources in excess, we don’t become efficient. We become wasteful.
How to Achieve Breakthrough By Embracing Your Constraints
In its early days, Southwest Airlines had to sell one of its planes or face bankruptcy. When most people get hit with a constraint of limited resources like this one, they either fall victim to the...
How To Turn Your Limiting Constraints Into Seeds For Breakthrough Innovation
I spent the first couple of years as a solo founder wishing for more of everything. More time, more people, and more money so I could build more features and get more customers.
Say No to Product Roadmaps
Entrepreneurs need to be able to simultaneously **pitch a big long-term vision** while staying **grounded in short-term actions** to move their vision forward.
Scaling Flow in a Startup
Last year, I outlined ten work hacks I use for managing conflicting pulls on my time in a post titled: [“Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup](https://blog.leanstack.com/achieving-flow-in-a-lean-startu...
The True Value of Your Time
_Time is our scarcest resource. Resources like money and people can fluctuate up and down, but time only moves in one direction._
Achieving Flow in a Startup
Eliminating waste is the fundamental principle of lean thinking.
Balancing the Conflicting Pulls on Time in a Startup
Time, like any resource, has multiple pulls. In a startup, there is a basic pull for activities outside and inside the building.
Slow Down to Go Fast
Most entrepreneurs are understandably in a rush to get to the right side of the hockey-stick curve (aka scaling).
Traction is the Goal. Everything Else is Distraction.
What is the one thing that both investors and entrepreneurs care about? It’s growth or traction.