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Years ago I worked at Microsoft in an international role. I had a lot of dealings with US colleagues, and one thing that always puzzled me was how resistant they were to change or doing something differently. That lasted until someone explained to me that in the US, the time is takes from a boss… Continue reading Put yourself on the other side
When trying to understand a problem, it's potential solutions and what you should build in the end, it is so easy to loose the big picture of what you're doing and how that translates down to experiment by experiment that moves your product closer to something desirable. But it doesn't have to be that way.… Continue reading Roadmap of experiments
Alex Danco wrote a stellar blog post a couple of weeks ago about the Freud moment of the Covid-19 pandemic seen from an American perspective. In it he argues that the reason why the US is struggling so much with the pandemic is because doing all the right things to stem it has been positioned… Continue reading Your ego is (literally) killing you
What does a Trump rally, TikTok users and startup tactics have in common? They are here and now - and there's not necessarily a grand plan for how to move on from here. When I saw that apparently a viral TikTok prank of securing tickets for Trumps rally in Tulsa and then (of course) not… Continue reading TikTok and a lot of…nothing
Back in 2008 me and my present boss had a great dialogue back and forth about a concept, we called "Fan of Fans"; the idea built in Kevin Kelly's 1000 True Fans post that if you could muster enough dedicated fans, you would have the foundation for a solid business. We bought the domain and… Continue reading Fan of fans
When somebody "accidentally" falls out of a window at a hospital or any ofter building after criticizing the government and their policy, actions - or lack thereof - you could argue that it could be seen as a 'clever' way of removing an opposing voice for good. It is a tactic. A morbid but...eehhm...efficient one.… Continue reading Don’t fall out of windows
Last night at 1.40 AM I wrapped up my participation in the Prof G Strategy Sprint with Professor Scott Galloway, NYU Stern School of Business. The course ended - fittingly - with a session on Life Strategy by the man himself that is some of the most insightful I have heard in a while. The… Continue reading Do the Prof G Strategy Sprint
It is often fairly easy to describe what the ambition of your idea or startup is; where is it that you strive to be in, say, 5 years time? What is the outcome you are looking for? The dent in the universe you are looking to shape? What is often neglected on a planning level… Continue reading Roadmap as a journey