Passive Ownership Transfer (POT)
Most management systems don’t collapse because no one cares. They collapse because everyone thinks someone else cares. Many writings treat ownership as binary: you either have it, or you don’t. In my experience, the real danger lies here: ownership doesn’t vanish in a dramatic flash, it leaks away in small, polite exchanges. Someone says “tell…
Don’t build on rejection
Rejection is a powerful force. It can help us defy the status quo and can become a never-ending well of motivation. But it can make us waste years of time and energy. Most of the successful people I know have strong rejections: of authority, monopolies, a way to do certain things, etc. They are the…
On individual identity
In an age where brands strategically construct evocative identities, we forgot to talk about how people define themselves. Corporate storytelling forgot the individuals Today’s market dynamics value differentiation and daring ventures. Brands, in response, have moved away from mere transactional interactions to embrace the age-old allure of storytelling. When you hear names like Apple, Tesla,…
Dragster, boat or rocketship: are you building the right startup?
It’s 9PM. You just went through an afternoon of meetings and you just started responding to your emails 1h ago. You still have to finish this new presentation that your sales team is asking for. Zoom fatigue kicks in and you fall asleep on your keyboard. While asleep the all-mighty God of Business appears in…
BFS Framework for scale
In a nutshell The BFS framework gives a common language to prioritize tasks that needs to be done several times per quarter. The main idea is to make those tasks either Better, Faster or Scalable. The concept is simple, but it brings enormous results if applied with consistency. It has the added benefit of avoiding…
Musing 