How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup - Bloomberg
Every day, Americans spend about $1.2 billion online. That figure has roughly doubled in the past five years, according to the Department of Commerce, and it’s likely to double again in the next five as the internet continues to devour traditional retail. So it might come as a surprise that the web’s financial infrastructure is old and slow.
The Three Altitudes of Leadership | INSEAD Knowledge
Leaders must cultivate the seamless ability to mix forward-vision thinking, tactical execution and self-awareness – across the altitudes of leadership.
5 minute read - great article on leadership and what in means today in the modern work environment ^ADJ
Make Product Decisions Without Doubt — My Lessons from Twitter and Slack
The power of the hypothesis tree structure is that it not only can weaken or strengthen your beliefs logically, but also help you separate logical concerns from change aversion and other fears around your idea.
5 minute read - no matter what business you are in, some useful insights are in this article ^ADJ
Stop asking your employees this one question — it’s hurting them
“How can I help you?” You’d think this would be a great question to ask your employees. Surely, I’ve asked this question, as a CEO myself, to my own team countless of times.
3 minute read - a good reminder that as Leaders we need to be even more prepared, and that our job is to enable high performance ^ADJ
1 Simple Thing a Good CEO Can Do to Immediately Improve Company Culture
If you have healthy and engaged employees, your company is not only going to display higher levels of mental fitness and capabilities, but your overall bottom line will increase as well. In an effort to increase the health and engagement of their employees, companies are looking into various wellness initiatives. However, most companies often start with a focus on the wrong area. When it comes to reshaping the landscape and vitality of your employees, the first area of focus needs to be on their sleep.
2 minute read - I'm a big advocate for people working on their sleep ^ADJ
Anger is temporary madness: the Stoics knew how to curb it | Aeon Ideas
People get angry for all sorts of reasons, from the trivial ones (someone cut me off on the highway) to the really serious ones (people keep dying in Syria and nobody is doing anything about it). But, mostly, anger arises for trivial reasons. That’s why the American Psychological Association has a section of its website devoted to anger management. Interestingly, it reads very much like one of the oldest treatises on the subject, On Anger, written by the Stoic philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca back in the first century CE.