Its been a little while since I've written a post.  As some of you know, I'm currently (as my friend Darren would say) a "free agent" and spending most of my time figuring-out what's next.  However, I thought I'd take a bit of "Hurricane-time" to write a quick post on a pen.  Yes, a pen … but not ju...

A few weeks ago I was having dinner with my fiancée, and we started talking about some of the leaders of her company.  She works for a large Fortune 500, and so there are many leaders, at many different levels.  Specifically, we started talking about her boss, and her boss' boss and how terrific the...

A couple of weeks ago, Levovo CEO Yang Yuanqing made a somewhat unique move and divided his $3M bonus into 10,000 smaller bonuses and distributed it among the lower-level employees of the computer manufacturing giant.  The distribution was obviously quite newsworthy, and has been covered extensively...

Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast

This post is continued from part 1

The second collaboration-based driver of our increased output is that everyone is "on the same page." By that, I mean that with all team-members involved in all major aspects of the process, it has been easy to quickly shift,...

Coming from a background in Investment Banking and Venture Capital, teamwork has always been a critical component of my workflow. Of course, in the finance world, teamwork rarely involves working in cross-functional teams (in bigger banks that sometimes occurs, but less so in smaller firms). In the...