Leadership Posts

How I rediscovered my ambition.

I should have seen it coming.

Why the startup rules have changed, and we're plodding along blindly.

Sometimes you see it coming totally miss it. 

Seriously, WTF?

Since I started teaching entrepreneurship, I’ve been trying to instill an iconoclastic attitude in founders. I really want to push them to think for themselv...

How do Lean and Agile teams deliver working code faster? A technical explanation for non-techies.

Agile is associated with speed. The promise of Agile is working code faster, but how does this happen in practice? Though practices like Test-driven Developm...

It's not the entrepreneur's job to predict the future, it's their job to make it happen.

Just as you don’t need to predict the future to put yourself there when it starts, it’s not enough to put yourself in the right place at the right time – you...

Rework vs Getting Real

Rework takes some concepts from Getting Real and explains how they’re relevant to business thinking, not just web apps. I explain two of them: Epicenter Desi...

Rework - Book Review

A few questions out there about Rework, the new 37 Signals book. I’ve had an advanced copy for a few months and I review it here. </param></param&g...