Leadership & Working (by Iain)

This was first posted January 26, 2016 Last week I attended an excellent workshop on "Compassionate Leadership". The whole point of the workshop was to have a discussion on what "Compassionate Leadership" meant to us. It was very interesting as we started with compassion being all "soft, nice, and comfortable" and finished up with compassion...

Startup Boards is an Awesome Resource for Young Startup CEOs ( and those in Training )

Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors: Brad Feld, Mahendra Ramsinghani is a very useful book for young entrepreneurs and their advisors. I really like that Feld & Ramsighani spend a lot of time defining the roles and boundaries of the people involved in a board. Most importantly they describe the...

Recommending “The Founders Dilemmas” by Noam Wasserman

I’ve been recommending The Founder’s Dilemma by Noam Wasserman a lot these days. I like how Wasserman takes a his empirical study of 10,000-ish startups and looks for patterns. The conclusion: People problems are the leading cause of failure in startups. The patterns he focusses on are: Career Dilemmas - Should I found? When? Why?...

What Does Marketing Do? ( In Theory ) Make Selling Superfluous

Revisiting Drucker's definition of Marketing -- What Does Marketing Do? (Part 1) {2006}. Still Useful. /enjoy. Here are the highlights. Theory Let's start by referring to Drucker. We get the following definition from pages 20 & 21 in "Essential Drucker". There will always, one can assume, be the need for some selling. But the aim...

Serious Stuff – The Burnout Zone

I wrote this "popular" post on "burnout" way back in 1Q2007. I Forget What 8 Was For? - What the !@#$ Does Marketing Do? I was amazed how many people spoke to me about it back then. Sadly … Still very relevant. Here is some "burnout slideware" on the topic. Full Text of "I Forget...