Over the past few days, I’ve been publishing specific quotes that have made an impact on me over the past few years. This is the last one from Nicholas Vitalari and Haydn Shaughnessy’s The Elastic…
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Making sense of the unknown
I believe that design is leadership and leadership is design. The challenge for designers and leaders alike is to sort through what is unknown in order to make sense of where to go and then…
The traits of leaders
Leadership comes in different shapes and sizes and I’m most concerned with how people lead. The work of Ronald Heifetz recently caught my attention and in his book, Leadership without Easy Answers, he describes the…
Q&A with Harry Alford, Co-Founder of humble ventures
Harry’s a 4x founder and is currently managing Washington, DC-based humble ventures–a venture catalyst cooperative that serves as the bridge between startups, investors, and established organizations. He also has experience in professional lacrosse. You can find…
Out of Alignment
A company’s website says that they have specific values that they are supposed to be living up to each day. However, it doesn’t appear that the company leadership lives, leads, or manages according to these…
Simple questions, deep answers
I’m not sure what to do next. What do you think I should do? There are any number of ways to handle that question, but what you do next depends on what you are doing…