The Germans have a saying, “Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf.” It translates into (somewhat nonsensically) “the fish rots from the head” and refers to the idea that (good) leadership starts at the top of an organization. In the US, we like to say “the buck stops here” (going back to…
Recently I have started (another) deep dive into the broader subject of “leadership.” After writing and publishing Disrupt Disruption – How to Decode…
The other day, while flipping through a beautifully produced outdoor magazine, I came across a full-page illustration of a terrain map with the words…
Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos once remarked, “doing things at high speed, that’s the best defense against the future.” By now, I have spent more than 30…
Dear Friend — Allow me to interrupt our usual programming for an announcement: I just launched my new book Disrupt Disruption – How to Decode The…
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Yesterday I recorded an episode of the Disrupt Disruption podcast with Mary Grove, Managing Director of Bread and Butter Ventures and former founding…
A good ten years ago, at Amazon re:Invent 2012, Jeff Bezos cracked a joke on stage while being interviewed by Werner Vogels (Amazon’s CTO): “It is…
My friend Rob Evans, co-founder of Imaginal Labs, likes to point out that “like evolution in the natural world, practical innovations almost always…
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