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    • 5 Reasons Why CEOs Make Bad Decisions and How to Avoid Them

      5 Reasons Why CEOs Make Bad Decisions and How to Avoid Them

      February 23, 2020

      Being CEO, Bookshelf, Leadership, Management, Mental Models

      It’s time to fire my gut.As a CEO, I have a bias for action and often make decisions with my gut.

    • 8 Books I Couldn’t Put Down in 2019

      8 Books I Couldn’t Put Down in 2019

      February 17, 2020

      Bookshelf, Life Lessons, Management, Mental Models, Women

      Its like weightlifting for the brain. Last year, I decided to focus on leaders. 

    • Should Your Startup Be Hiring Specialists or Generalists?

      Should Your Startup Be Hiring Specialists or Generalists?

      August 4, 2019

      Being CEO, Bookshelf, Coaching, Culture, Leadership, Management, Tribe Vibes

      Managers love to reward hyper-specialization. But is it better to hire for general problem-solving abilities?

    • 5 (New) Learnings from a Recovering #Insurtech CEO

      5 (New) Learnings from a Recovering #Insurtech CEO

      June 9, 2019

      Bookshelf, Insurtech, Leadership, Life Lessons, Management, Sales

      It’s been two years since I have been at the helm of a fast-growing #insurtech startup. I have since moved on to new adventures. But, I have kept up with the pulse of the industry by serving as an advisor and coach to newbie CEOs who are among a class of innovators. In my role,

    • Finding Solitude in Leadership: A 4 Step Recipe

      Finding Solitude in Leadership: A 4 Step Recipe

      June 2, 2019

      Being CEO, Bookshelf, Leadership, Life Lessons, Management

      “Crunch, crunch, crunch,” was the sound my gait made as I marched along a distant barren landscape. Here, there were no demanding customers, no competition putting pressure on me. There were no employees anxiously seeking consensus and no investors asking endless questions about our sales forecast. Absent were the industry publications offering views of the

    • Becoming Obama: A Memoir

      Becoming Obama: A Memoir

      May 23, 2019

      Bookshelf, Leadership, Letters

      I believe that the life story of everyone on Earth is not just a linear fairy tale with a straightforward beginning and end. Instead, it is a mosaic of mini-stories that come together to create a masterpiece like the work of Antoni Gaudi. When I opened my copy of Michelle Obama’s book Becoming, I half

    • Laser Focus and Seven Nuggets of Advice for First-time Founders and CEOs

      Laser Focus and Seven Nuggets of Advice for First-time Founders and CEOs

      May 1, 2019

      Being CEO, Bookshelf, Founding, Leadership

      “Four votes for John,” said one of my four co-founders. It was 1997, and we were deciding who among us would be the titular head of our first venture. It was a simple ceremony, no cryptic puffs of smoke through an old chimney. While I was happy to have won the election — I wanted to win — I

    • Great Books To Help Elevate Your Recruiting Game

      Great Books To Help Elevate Your Recruiting Game

      April 7, 2019

      Bookshelf, Hiring, Management, Recruiting

      Hand-picking the right people is not easy. Having a playbook helps

    • Why CEOs Are Better Than Chimpanzees

      Why CEOs Are Better Than Chimpanzees

      March 21, 2019

      Being CEO, Bookshelf, Culture, Featured, Management, Tribe Vibes

      As a CEO, one of your jobs — it’s maybe the most important — is to give your fellow sapiens what they need most, something to believe in.

    • Bad Blood and My Seven 5-star Books from 2018

      Bad Blood and My Seven 5-star Books from 2018

      March 3, 2019

      Bookshelf, Leadership, Life Lessons, Management, Marketing

      Never fall in love with your product, keep your ego in check, and love your customers.

    • Blockchain for the Brain: My five-star books from 2018.

      Blockchain for the Brain: My five-star books from 2018.

      February 18, 2019

      Bookshelf, Leadership

      I have been the CEO of Soluna for the past year (2018) and what a great year it was! If you read one of my earlier articles on Soluna’s blog, “My Next Adventure”, you may recall that I knew very little about Blockchain when I first started this journey. However, like many of you, I

    • My Top 5 Five-Star Podcasts of 2017

      My Top 5 Five-Star Podcasts of 2017

      January 11, 2018

      Bookshelf

      If you are not up on the world of podcasts, then you are right where I was about a year ago. I tried the podcast app on my iPhone a few times but just couldn’t get into it. I could never find a channel with something I wanted to hear. Also, as a CEO, I

    • How I Doubled My Reading Speed (and the Books I Read Last Summer)

      How I Doubled My Reading Speed (and the Books I Read Last Summer)

      October 8, 2017

      Bookshelf, Management, Recruiting

      Reading is a breath of fresh air for the mind of a busy CEO.

    • It is all about DNA: How to Hire Like Your Life Depended On It.

      It is all about DNA: How to Hire Like Your Life Depended On It.

      October 1, 2017

      Being CEO, Bookshelf, Culture, Hiring, Life Lessons, Recruiting, Tribe Vibes

      Companies are a unique combination of people that make them legendary; or not.

    • The Magic Wand: A Founding Story.

      The Magic Wand: A Founding Story.

      June 28, 2017

      Bookshelf, Founding, Insurtech, Leadership

      Last summer (August 2016) I sold my second software company. It ended a decade of growth, working with the best co-founders, building a great team, and transforming an industry. The company was in the #insurtech space, a recently formed tech category that is on fire. The most common question I immediately get after people congratulate

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