Company as a Product
Jason Fried, Dharmesh Shah, and other founders on treating the organization itself as a product — continuously discovered, iterated, and improved with the same discipline as your customer-facing products.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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Transformation Blues - Fighting the nice-to-have cave of pain with Must Have and Case Studies
Why transformation initiatives lose momentum: the shift from burning platform to nice-to-have. How to keep organizational change alive after the initial crisis passes.
Read more →Situational Leadership: Balancing Involvement and Ownership
A founder can't own everything — but checking out isn't the answer either. A practical taxonomy for deciding when to Own, Coach, Delegate, or Learn based on strategic importance and your own expertise.
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Lazy engineers leverage the Product Operating Model
Why the best engineers push for a product operating model: autonomy, clear ownership, and the end of endless coordination overhead. The engineer perspective on organizational design.
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Insights from Developing The Code / Operating System For My Business
Dogfooding agility in a consulting business: why every business runs on an operating system, how systems thinking reveals the right constraint to invest in, and what happens when you apply cross-functional product thinking to your own growth.
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‘”OKRs S&%k, but we don’t know anything better” - Scaling Founder Mode by Fixing OKRs’
‘When scaleup leaders say OKRs are broken but can’’t find anything better, the real problem is usually misapplication. How fixing OKRs back to first principles enables the aligned autonomy founder mode can’’t scale without.’
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