Britt Gage
@brittfgage
Founder, of All Trades. Building a new type of company for generalists and the founders we seek to serve.
Britt Gage
weofalltrades.com
People are most receptive to feedback from people they like and trust. Therefore, a foundational part of subtle influence is keeping the relationship strong and making sure it doesn’t lead to a situation where most of your interactions are about trying to get the person to change.
The main way to do this is to make sure that you continue to have... See more
The main way to do this is to make sure that you continue to have... See more
Casey Rosengren • The Art of Subtle Influence
- Reflect on your progress. While job titles are fixed, your daily accomplishments are not. Writing every day to think about what you actually did today that made you a better version of yourself is a great exercise to ensure you focus on the right things. Journaling is a powerful tool to add to your mental gym.
- Conduct personal experiments. Making
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • The tyranny of job titles: from vanity growth to personal growth
These are direct actions we take internally in our rituals for generalists at oAT — so cool to see this mirrored back to us.
When adding a new team or role, take the time to clarify a few things: What a role is, what it’s meant to serve, how existing people have been making up for the lack of that role, and how their lives are going to be changed by new people coming in — in positive and potentially negative ways.
23 Tactical Company Building Lessons, Learned From Scaling Stripe & Notion
If you allow your ICP to fray, you’ll lose
From the beginning, we knew we needed to define a good ideal customer profile (ICP). There are manyapproaches to defining a good ICP, but a quality we underestimated is specificity . Simply put, an ICP must be a single market segment :a group of people for whom the value of solving a problem is roughly the... See more
From the beginning, we knew we needed to define a good ideal customer profile (ICP). There are manyapproaches to defining a good ICP, but a quality we underestimated is specificity . Simply put, an ICP must be a single market segment :a group of people for whom the value of solving a problem is roughly the... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • Lessons learned from a startup that didn’t make it
Use 1:1s as mini performance reviews. If you have a good manager (and that’s a BIG if, folks), they’ve probably already structured your 1:1s to keep track of your work and give you feedback on your progress toward bigger goals. But even if your boss is less Ted Lasso and more Michael Scott, you can still use your 1:1 time to prep for your annual... See more
What to do in your 1:1
You walk down your high street. What do you prefer to see there? The economist will say: Walmart, Best Buy, the Gap. Scale economies — cheaper prices — better for “consumers”! But the human being will say: an independent cafe, a good bookshop, a boutique clothing store. Why? Because they offer many things that mega scale organizations don’t.
