6 Counterintuitive Rules for Being a Better Manager — Advice from Lambda School, Quip & Facebook
In this exclusive interview, Molly Graham shares her six rules for how to be a good manager. Some come seemingly out of left field, others are nuanced takes on common pearls of wisdom — but true to what we’ve come to expect whenever we sit down with Graham, all are useful rules of thumb for any startup leader or new manager to lean on. From … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
How to Banish Bad Habits from Your Company
Freek Vermeulen explains why unhelpful practices go unnoticed and suggests how rooting them out can help innovation.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Safe Enough to Try: An Interview with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh
Organizations are more likely to innovate and thrive when they unleash the potential of individuals and the power of self-organizing teams, says the online retailer’s CEO.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Jeremy Rifkin on How to Manage a Future of Abundance
The influential economic theorist looks ahead to a world of virtually free energy and zero marginal cost production, and to a desperate race against climate change.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
My Management Lessons from Three Failed Startups, Google, Apple, Dropbox, and Twitter
During the last 20 years, Kim Scott has held leadership roles at some of the biggest and most influential tech companies in the world. Most recently, she advised Dropbox and Twitter. At First Round’s recent CEO Summit, she shared what she believes to be the most important management lessons she’s learned.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
The Next Pop Superstar Just Might Be a Robot
Shelly Palmer, one of the world’s leading digital-technology commentators, talks about the evolution of the entertainment and media industry.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
I’m Sorry, But Those Are Vanity Metrics
After three decades leading data teams at companies like LiveOps, Netscape, and ReadyForce, Lloyd Tabb’s biggest learning isn’t what you would expect — or want to hear: You’re measuring the wrong metrics. We all are.
In this exclusive interview, Tabb shares how to abide by metrics that generate direction — not pats on backs — so that your company can act on what’s most essential to … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Six Steps to Superior Product Prototyping: Lessons from an Apple and Oculus Engineer
Caitlin Kalinowski is a master of the prototyping process, with a deep understanding of where, when and how changes should be slotted in, from the first iteration to the last. It’s made her a highly sought-after engineer in Silicon Valley. In this exclusive interview, Kalinowski discusses how and why you must define your non-negotiables before starting to build prototypes. She dives deep on specific approaches … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Reduce Organizational Drag
Michael Mankins, Bain & Company partner and head of the firm’s Organization practice, explains how organizations unintentionally fail to manage their employees’ time and energy. He also lays out what managers can do to reduce what he calls organizational drag.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Lotte Bailyn: The Thought Leader Interview
Our society is still compartmentalizing “work” and “life,” looking for a way to even the scales, when we should be rethinking the perspective that values time as the ultimate capital. In systems based on such a mind-set, success comes to those who seem to be working the hardest, because they are always accessible. People cling to an outmoded view that work should be done by … [ Read more ]
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Ellen Langer on the Value of Mindfulness in Business
A pioneer in mindfulness research says that companies can promote innovation and their own rejuvenation by setting the right context.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
China’s Philosopher-CEO Zhang Ruimin
Haier’s leader describes how he built a winning global company by continually reframing his management philosophy.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Frances Hesselbein’s Merit Badge in Leadership
The former CEO of the Girl Scouts has spent decades bringing professional management to nonprofits.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Tom Peters on Leading the 21st-Century Organization
Thirty years after leaving McKinsey, the prolific author returns to discuss tomorrow’s management challenges and the keys to organizational change and transformative leadership in any age.
Editor’s Note: I am not a big fan of Tom Peters and I find very little of real substance in this interview, but I’ll let you decide for yourself.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Nir Halevy on Motivating Your Workforce
The Stanford professor explains how social distance (construal-level theory) affects how people respond to feedback.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Robert Sutton’s Guide to Excellence
The Stanford professor’s latest research explores the practices that enable companies to scale what they do best.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Thomas Malone on Building Smarter Teams
The head of MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence explains how the social intelligence factor is critical for business success.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Zachary Shore on How to Predict the Future
A historian’s approach to strategic empathy can help you anticipate your rivals’ next moves.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Lose Your Just-Good-Enough Managers
You can’t build a great company by tolerating mediocre leaders. A Q&A with Raad Al-Saady, managing director at Abdul Latif Jameel.
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management
Rita Gunther McGrath on the End of Competitive Advantage
The Columbia Business School professor says the era of sustainable competitive advantage is being replaced by an age of flexibility. Are you ready?
Content: Thought Leader | Author: Molly Graham | Source: “First Round Review” | Subject: Management