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The Secret to Employee Happiness
Read moreWhat CEO doesn’t wish for an office filled with happy, creative and hyper-productive employees? The fact is, CEOs who understand and nurture happiness create better people and better employees, which results in amazing effort and genius that will benefit...
Four steps to stop entrepreneurial procrastination
Read moreI saw Warren Muller, my co-founder at Micrel, pulling an oil tray from under his automobile and pouring the oil back into the car’s motor. He had been doing this for quite some time because he felt that taking...
A Company Divided Against Itself …
Read moreTo paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, a company divided against itself cannot stand. The foreshadowed collapse comes from office politics, a recurring concern for corporate leaders. The essence of any organization is cooperation. Volunteers in non-profits cooperate to address social ills....
Scaling and Asparagus
Read moreStartups are too often like asparagus. Asparagus is an odd food. It grows very quickly (which makes it a profitable crop), but it grows mainly by storing water, and because of this it contains only a few nutrients. A...
Celebrating Silicon Valley Endurance
Read moreSilicon Valley is learning the difference between price and value, which is also the difference between bottle rocket and enduring companies. A recent Economist article, “Empire of the Geeks,” celebrated Silicon Valley while warning about its insular financing model....
Smarter CEOs: How to manage your presence
Read moreSeth Godin recently identified some reasons why CEOs can be stupid, and he almost found the central theme (almost, but not quite). CEOs are human, and as such they fall prey to human emotions. One of the trickiest human...