I believe in being scrappy.  I believe in being market-driven.  I believe in making more decisions, faster. We each see the world through our own lens.  Everyone sits somewhere on a spectrum of comfort or discomfort with ambiguity & uncertainty. More conservative folks tend to want to tamp down uncertainty

Organizations exist to coordinate efforts and output. This is always in order to achieve something greater than the sum of the parts.  Every business, group, or unit has an organizational structure.  Most often this is depicted in an “org chart” that mostly only shows the hierarchy of oversight or control.

Everyone wants to be successful, be happier, get what they want. There are many paths we can take. The choices are simple, and taking the best path is always hard. I’ve learned that the best path to choose is right there in front of me.  I’ve not always

"History is just one damn thing after another" I was a History major in college.  Basically that means that you read a ton, write a ton, and try to understand why certain events happened - and - what those events did to cause things to happen afterward. Much

How do you know if something is a good bet? In the short run it's always unclear. Probabilities suggest that evidence or proof is pretty thin in the beginning.  Good ideas can struggle.  Bad ideas can succeed.  If we focus too much on the short run performance we

"If you've been playing poker for a half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy" - Warren Buffet We've all spent time in large, recurring, intentionally important meetings.  The type of meeting where

It's something every entrepreneur, investor, leader, or creator of remarkable things struggles with.  If they don't, they're either lying to you, or to themselves. Is your judgement right? Or did you miss something in your blind spot? Your judgement was right, but you didn&

When we set out to do anything we form a mental picture or "forecast" of what can be achieved with proper focus and execution.  Forecasts, given their nature of predicting the future are often wrong.  Ideally they're wrong in a favorable sense, where we exceed our

Note: I wrote the following in an internal email to the team here at Sovrn. A big perk of my job as CEO is I get to meet with all sorts of interesting people. Many of the people I meet are fellow entrepreneurs, CEOs, and aspiring company leaders. A few

I get to live and work in Boulder, CO. Some have described Boulder as "25 square miles, surrounded by reality [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/style/tmagazine/30boulder.html]", and I don't think it's all that far off.  Boulder's a

Values are a reflection of what you want your behaviors to be.  Values are always aspirational, sometimes inspirational.  Values are what you believe. Your beliefs + your behaviors = who you are. Collective beliefs + behaviors of a group = the culture of the group. I've worked in different companies and cultures.

If we see things through probabilities & bets, we give ourselves a built-in opportunity to improve. Armed with this perspective, we can develop and then seek to improve our systems. Systems allow us to better evaluate probabilities, and place better bets. A revenue forecast, for example, (supported by existing customers,

Work on something that matters to you more than the monetary rewards you get for doing it. Create value for other people faster than you create value for yourself. We succeed when others succeed.