What is Founder’s Mode ? The Scar-Tissue of Founder’s put to use.
Hands-On Deliberation vs Governance through Org-Chart Manager mode is what most professional executives are trained to do — treat each branch of the org chart as a black box. Tell your direct reports what, let them figure out how, and stay out of the details, because getting into the details is “micromanaging.” Founder mode keeps the founder engaged with […]
Why 3D printing is not helping your Hardware Startup? “Manufacturing Hell” is real sometimes.
3D printing is exceptionally good at one thing: letting you iterate on geometry fast. What it’s not good at is telling you whether your product can be manufactured — which is a completely different question, and the one that actually determines whether your startup survives contact with a factory. A founder who spends four months refining a […]
Understanding vs Knowledge : Individuals vs Teams and dynamics of Breakthroughs .
There is a peculiar modern habit of treating “knowledge” and “understanding” as synonyms, filing them both under the same bureaucratic heading: Information We Have Acquired The mistake organisations make is assuming the machinery that generates understanding and the machinery that generates knowledge are the same machinery, just at different scales. So they build enormous, well-resourced, […]