It’s easy to buy into the myth that the moment your company reaches product-market fit, your job as the founder is to get out of the way. Hire operators. Trust the process. Stay out of the weeds. It’s good advice — until it isn’t. Because great founders aren’t just visionaries. They’re polymaths. ...
If you want to build a great company (not just a “good enough” one, but a truly great one), you eventually run into this hard truth: Heroics don’t scale. It’s easy to celebrate the person who pulls the all-nighter, saves the client, or jumps in last-minute to close the deal. Those moments feel ...
We’ve all been there: You explain your position clearly (maybe even brilliantly), and instead of agreement, you get resistance. When someone pushes back, especially when the stakes are high, it can feel like they’re not listening. But more often than not, they are. They’re just not agreeing with ...
