Writing
I write twice a week on LinkedIn about running companies through growth and ownership change.
- A lost package is a refund. A lost one-of-a-kind item is gone for good. (opens in a new tab)
- Tomorrow I will be the starter at the Georgia high school cross country championships. (opens in a new tab)
- Our customers were collectors. We started speaking to them as investors. (opens in a new tab)
- A year ago Infinite Athlete was acquired by Exos. Charlie wrote this at the time, and I still appreciate it. (opens in a new tab)
- The most useful board meeting I ran was the one that opened with bad news. (opens in a new tab)
- Avoiding a hard conversation only seems to protect the manager. (opens in a new tab)
- AI makes a well-run company faster, and a poorly run one too. (opens in a new tab)
- Morale is usually downstream of how decisions get made. (opens in a new tab)
- The buck stops with you. Decision rights tell you whose phone rings when something breaks. What happens next depends on whether that person shows up. (opens in a new tab)
- Twice now, a founder has asked me to run the company while they stayed its CEO. (opens in a new tab)
- Our fulfillment took weeks. Three months later it was same-day, without adding a square foot. (opens in a new tab)
- Turns out Michael Jordan and I wear almost the same shoe size. (opens in a new tab)
- Diligence is a buyer asking one question: does your operating model exist outside a few people's heads? (opens in a new tab)