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The 7 Traits of Super Founders

In the book Super Founders, Ali Temaseb painstakingly analysed the treats that made 200 unicorns started between 2005-2018 and the 7 key treats of their founders

Is your startup suffering from a dysfunctional team? then this book is for you

“If you could get all the people in an organisation rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competitor in any time” Patrick Lencioni The top reason startups fail is lack of market need. Running out of cash is the second one. But if you dig deeper, one …

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Friday take 5: what I read this week

One of the things I missed about the time I started blogging is the naiveness and casualness of it. Writing a post was more like writing a tweet. With time, perhaps due my own inhibitions, doing a post was more like writing a memo. I felt like it needed to be robust and well researched …

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The “Lovemaking Model” for Happiness

This is a slightly different post than normal, inspired by a book i’m reading, called Happier. The book is written by Tal Ben Shahar, a Professor at Harvard University teaching the school’s most popular class on positive psychology after dedicating much of his adult life to studying everything he could about Happiness. In one of …

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The Book Benchmark’s Peter Fenton Recommends to Every Portfolio CEO

The five temptations of a CEO by Patric Lencioni, the book Benchmark’s Peter Fenton recommends to every portfolio CEO,

Five Books I Want to Read in 2017

This was going to be a post on the books I’ve enjoyed reading in 2016. I will mention some of those but instead, I’ll keep it forward-looking and hopefully get a recommendation or two from readers of this blog.

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