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Meeting Room B

Being an effective founder demands thinking time. You are doing your job better if you find the time and place that enables you to think best.

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Choose your wheels

When the terrain gets rough, it doesn't make the journey impossible.

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Accepting gravity

Once you can reach the same acceptance of these natural forces in your agency as you have with gravity, it'll change your life as a founder.

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Starting signals

How do you tend to start your work day?

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Will it make the boat go faster?

How simply could you state your strategy? What could be the key questions that your team use to measure daily decisions against the strategy?

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The power of a mission

Now that we've refined and selected our ideas to work on, it's time to gather round and get them done.

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Make some noise

How to make some noise and sense of occasion around the current ideas in progress in your agency.

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Portion sizes

What internal projects do you have cooking? How can you design them to be smaller portions?

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Slow down to go faster

Most agencies keep spinning up new internal projects, adding lanes to our motorways. Then we keep hopping between lanes until something (or someone) crashes.

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Problems are your friend

One way to select the most valuable ideas rather than just the shiniest, trendiest or most fun

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When ideas attack

A great thing about leading an agency full of smart creative people is the sheer number of ideas they come up with.

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Making kimchi

How to end up with a healthy culture.

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Wearing the same things

When there is a crisis, or any intense period of life or work, our brains are overloaded with decisions. This is particularly true of leaders, who have to make decisions for entire organisations as well as themselves.

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Plus one

What could you do that would make this coming week just 1 point better?

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Bossing it: a culture of accountability

A key part of being an effective boss is nurturing a culture in which the norm is to do what you say you'll do, and take responsibility for that.

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Bossing it: decisions, decisions

Think about how you can design the agency to make more decisions, rather than being the decider.

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Bossing it: Gather and radiate

One of the key parts of stepping up to be the boss is becoming a mindful and proactive communicator.

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Bossing it: Learning from crime

Instead of trying to motivate people into being happy, ensure they have a good motive.

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