Before AI adoption at your organization is a technology problem, it’s actually a people problem. When your organization tries to adopt AI, the first step isn’t to just pick a platform and start using it. (Unless you’re an organization of one person! Lucky you!) At a very high level, the steps are more like this: First, … Continue reading AI is a People Problem First
Category: Culture and Values
5 Tips on How to Get Everyone at Your Company Using AI
The use cases for AI are countless and growing, so finding use cases is actually easy (ask AI if you need ideas!). The hard part is executing to make AI adoption happen at your company. Here are five tips on how to get everyone at your company using AI: 1. Create the Culture Create a … Continue reading 5 Tips on How to Get Everyone at Your Company Using AI
How To Be A Great Employee
There are countless courses, coaches, and materials on management. But, what about the other half of that relationship? How do you learn to be a great employee?
Feedback for Management: Give More Off-Cycle Raises
There are few better ways to show you care about and value your employees, and to retain your best people, than the unrequested, unexpected, unscheduled, off-cycle raise.
6 Steps for Creating Better Managers (with Tools and Templates)
How to create a better management system and better managers, and incidentally achieve your company goals
Foundational Materials
Everything your organization does starts with and builds on your foundational materials. This resource has definitions of a vision, mission, strategy, values, and culture, with some of the best examples out there.
Everyone Needs A User Manual
What if you had a user manual for your manager, the members of your team, or the people who work for you? You could, without years of working together first, learn how they like to communicate, how they like to manage or be managed, how they like to give and receive feedback, what their pet … Continue reading Everyone Needs A User Manual
Four Reasons Why Your Company Needs An “Always Be Learning” Program
At each of my last few startups, I instituted a program where employees teach each other stuff. It’s called Always Be Learning or #ABL (because everything needs a mysterious hashtag). At Kickstarter, it started informally with a few people on the operations team teaching each other topics ranging from SQL to egg cookery, and grew … Continue reading Four Reasons Why Your Company Needs An “Always Be Learning” Program
Resources for Startup Operators 