Simon Joliveau Breney

Our desire to maintain harmony can cause us to be indirect about uncomfortable truths. Our desire to influence can cause us to pre-emptively address every arcane objection. Our desire to impress can cause us to use more language than necessary. And the expectations we have internalized about corporate communication often cause us to write in a way

You should schedule at least one 30-minute weekly meeting with everyone working on the project.

The goal of this meeting is to (1) be a backstop for any coordination that needs to happen and didn’t happen asynchronously; (2) be an efficient way to create common knowledge of goals, updates, etc.; (3) help you track whether things are going well.

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You never had control; all you had was anxiety. And when you let go of that, even a little bit, what you’re left with is one of the most powerful reasons imaginable for taking any action that feels as though it might make life more meaningful or vibrant, which is that frankly, at the end of the day, you might as well.

The five essentials ingredients to any company strategy document are:

1. Mission - What are you meant to achieve




2. Vision - What does it look like once you’ve achieved it




3. Goal - How do you concretely know you’ve achieved it




4. Strategy - What is the path to achieving it




5. Strategic pillars - Three to five key bets that the company needs to make

we encourage Leadership to call out not just what they know but what they don’t know and wish that they did.

Francis Ford Coppola writes in his books. More than that, he thinks this practice is essential:

I think it’s important to put your impressions down on the first reading because those are the initial instincts about what you thought was good or what you didn’t understand or what you thought was bad….

Star Trek: The quintessential computer of the future. Touchy, talky and, er, video-y.