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Bet on the Founders, Not the Idea

At the seed stage the idea will change, so fund the people who will make something work no matter what.

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Building Your Own Social Radar

Turn people-reading from a mystery gift into a deliberate practice: checklist, conscious questions, and follow-up calibration.

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Central Org, Embedded Pods

Keep analytics reporting centrally, but mirror partner-team structure with pods that share their goals

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Discovery by Silence

Stop pitching, ask an open question about their whole life, then say nothing until the roadmap falls out

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Earn the Secret by Savoring Surprises

There's no recipe for a breakthrough — hunt surprises at the edge instead of validation

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Execution Beats Strategy

Perfect strategy with poor execution teaches you nothing. Good-enough strategy with perfect execution compounds.

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Expand, Don't Shrink

Insert a step between receiving feedback and acting on it — then answer it by adding tools, never by getting smaller.

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Fail-State Goaling

Name your worst-case experiences, set a team's goal on eradicating them, and hunt for the data you don't have

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Communication6 steps

Feeling-First Product Metaphor

Pick the feeling, name where you last felt it, and let the metaphor make a thousand small decisions for you.

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Force a Choice, Not a Comparison

Be the world's first banana, not a 10x better apple

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Go-Go-Go Plus Long-Term Compounding

Sprint to a proof of existence today; slow down to build the thing you will never regret owning

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Intuition as Hypothesis Generator

Treat product taste as a hypothesis machine, not an oracle — then debate it down to a working hypothesis

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Irreducible Complexity — The Simplicity Audit

1 + 1 = 1.5, not 3 — every addition subtracts, so audit the system, not the local decisions

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Leader Emulators

Build runnable models of the sharpest people you've worked with, then boot the right one when you're stuck.

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Live in the Future and Notice What's Missing

Don't try to think of a startup idea — get out of the present so ideas find you

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Outcome Ownership Over Role Boundaries

Goal people on the outcome, not the job description, and let them cross any function to reach it

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Pattern-Breaking Inside a Big Company

Make small bets that can fail a lot — and hide them from the mother ship

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Paying Is the Only Signal

Discount friends' feedback to zero, and convert 'willing to pay' into money actually moving — refundable

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Productivity3 steps

Problems One and Two

Stop reporting your productivity on problems 3-100; get stuck on the two hardest ones

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Innovation5 steps

Protected Deep-Dive Time

Goal the team on self-directed insight and use hackathons to stop exploratory work being eaten by inbound asks

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Strategy5 steps

Proxy Metric Selection

Goal on simple short-term inputs you can prove drive the long-term output you actually want

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Self-Mastery5 steps

Putting On the Coat of the Job

Run the spreadsheet, then tear it up — and simulate a Tuesday in the job instead.

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Strategy5 steps

Quality, Features, Deadline — Choose Two

Every launch drops one of three; software lets you drop quality only if you plan to earn it back

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Shipping 0-to-1 Inside a Big Company

Make it the customer's idea, storyboard it in Sharpie, prove it once, and show the economics

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Innovation6 steps

Study Group

A one-hour role-play where employees forget they work at your company and try to use your product

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Strategy5 steps

The Common Currency Model

Convert every lever in the business into one shared unit so cross-team tradeoffs become arithmetic

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The Curiosity Case Interview

Use a real historical company problem as the case, then test soft skills the candidate doesn't know you're testing

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The Dinosaur Brain Product Review

Executives hold three facts. Bring a recommendation, not a catalogue — and leave with principles, not answers.

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The Fascinating Reframe

Convert the visceral urge to be right into a question that harvests the information you're missing.

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The Hill Climb

Name whether you're optimising a local hill or crossing the valley to a bigger mountain — then price the valley.

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The Inflection Stress Test

Four questions that separate a real inflection from a vague 'why now'

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The Influence-Graph Fanboy Loop

Run PageRank on your community's network, then approach the central nodes for feedback — not distribution

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The Leakable Metric

Pick the one metric your customer would be delighted to discover you'd been measuring all along

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The Non-Fatal Override

If it isn't fatal, let them run it — but log your skepticism first so the outcome teaches both of you

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Leadership6 steps

The PM Framework Wrapper

A PM's real output is a framework that wraps strategy plus a point of view — and gets everyone to the same destination

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Entrepreneurship6 steps

The Social Radar Founder-Read

Read the human signals in a founder interview to catch red flags the idea-focused people miss.

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Entrepreneurship4 steps

The Three Elements of a Breakthrough Idea

Grade any startup idea on inflections, insight, and founder-future fit — not the implementation

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Leadership3 steps

The Three Pattern-Breaking Actions

Movements, storytelling, and disagreeableness — how you get people to move to your future

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Communication3 steps

The Three-Slide Believer Pitch

What you do, your non-obvious insight, then proof — built for believers, not objectors

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Communication4 steps

The Trust-First Interview Method

Talk less, promise review before publishing, and follow the tangents — so guests open up and the conversation goes somewhere real.

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Innovation5 steps

The Users Having a Bad Day Chart

Emit a log line every time a user hits pain, stack them in a bar chart, and burn the bars down

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Leadership6 steps

Toddler Soccer Goal Detangling

Goal every team on the same output metric and they swarm the ball. Detangle the customer journey into lanes.

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Tradeoff-Transparent Pushback

Never say no to a request — show the three things it displaces and let the asker decide

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