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
How to build a system of information-gathering to get an ROI on time spent
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The reason is the owner doesn’t have the actual skills or knowledge of the tasks that are being delegated.
They often think…
“I’ll hire someone to handle that for me.”
Which is all well and good if you know what metrics or KPIs to watch for.
But, if you don’t know how something is done…
Or you don’t understand the skills involved…
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They often think…
“I’ll hire someone to handle that for me.”
Which is all well and good if you know what metrics or KPIs to watch for.
But, if you don’t know how something is done…
Or you don’t understand the skills involved…
How can you know if... See more
Superhuman
Startup Systems and Internal Product Management
Why delegation fails
“At the end of the day, organizations are human.”
Bryan Yuji Walker
Change Leadership Certificate Instructor & IDEO Partner
Bryan Yuji Walker
Change Leadership Certificate Instructor & IDEO Partner
Superhuman
17% of employees who quit do it within the first month of a new role.
Why?
They were sold on something different than what they received once they got started.
Startups move fast and sometimes it’s unavoidable, but when this happens there’s a huge loss of trust. Employees may never take you at your word again fully.
The best you can do is to be... See more
Why?
They were sold on something different than what they received once they got started.
Startups move fast and sometimes it’s unavoidable, but when this happens there’s a huge loss of trust. Employees may never take you at your word again fully.
The best you can do is to be... See more
Michael Houck • What Do Top 1% Startup Employees Want?
For people seeking to make a difference, it begins with helping other people make a difference.
Just looking
We try to be as rigorous and data-driven as possible in quarterly planning. All objectives are measurable, either in terms of quantifiable thresholds or Boolean “was X completed or not.” Our objectives are very aggressive, and often at the end of the quarter we only end up completing 70% in one direction or another. The remaining 30% helps identify... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How Perplexity builds product
how Perplexity builds
Consider return on investment when determining the order of experiments. There are many factors that team leads consider when prioritizing projects, but I’d argue that doing the most efficient, high-ROI projects first is the right path, because they will have a longer period of paying compound interest. When teams do quarterly planning, they often... See more
Sean Colombo • The Secret to Duolingo’s Growth
Save frameworks for big (one-way-door) decisions: AsGokul Rajaram put it, “[A decision-making] framework isn’t meant for every situation. It’s meant for hard decisions. Things that would have real consequences for a company or group. Not all decisions are important. At Square, we used to jokingly call this the ‘kombucha scale,’ which captures two... See more