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On Thinking the Best

Posted on June 26, 2019 by dancoyle

If you’d met me about a decade ago, you would’ve quickly found out that I was deeply devoted to a few things: meditation, a raw food diet, and reading various versions of the Tao Te Ching. I had been on a very intentional path of self improvement for a little over two years. Since then,…

On Tremendous Effort

Posted on June 23, 2019June 25, 2019 by dancoyle

If you’ve been following my writing for a while, you might’ve come across a post I wrote shortly after two incongruent things happened in my life. I had a baby (my first) I started a new job at a 4 person startup as Head of Operations (not a small task) The post was titled New…

How to Scale Startup Operations

Posted on April 29, 2019October 11, 2019 by dancoyle

Let me start with a trite statement, so we can all agree with it and get it out of the way. Change is hard. There are, however, fundamental steps and considerations that you can take to smooth out these transitions. In this post, let’s focus on developing and implementing process into a startup that has…

Developing and Growing Corporate Culture

Posted on April 23, 2019October 11, 2019 by dancoyle

I see some version of the following questions crop up fairly frequently, especially in the startup community, so I figured I’d take a moment to share a few thoughts. The questions go something like this: How should we take steps to implement a healthy corporate culture that will strengthen as we grow? If we’ve taken…

Lessons Learned From A Young Leader and Founder

Posted on April 2, 2019October 11, 2019 by dancoyle

With over a decade of hindsight since my first role as a leader at a very successful startup, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the mistakes I made and challenges I faced. The points below are specific to my experience, but hopefully have broad applications. In an effort to keep this from becoming ten…

Startup Hubris: Don’t Fall Prey To It

Posted on March 1, 2019May 21, 2019 by dancoyle

Luckily, there are a ton of innovative, humble, open-minded startup founders and leaders out there. However, I’ve also encountered my fair share of, what I call, “startup hubris”; when you see it, you know it. It spreads throughout the organization and typically radiates from one or more early-influencers. Once startup hubris takes hold, it’s hard…

 

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