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Startup Families Care for One Another in Sometimes Unexpected Ways
Startup teams start small – and they often feel like families, with co-founders in “business marriages.” The relationship dynamics of people within a startup environment are often different from joining larger, less personal, more established companies as an employee – and it shows when the larger context of people’s lives intersect with business operations.
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Prerequisites for Synthesis
Last week, I wrote about one of the essential skills for startup leaders: synthesis. Synthesis is collecting and quickly combining ideas and parts of ideas together into a coherent whole, to provide a critically important framework of ideas that informs startup planning, decision-making, and storytelling. As I reflected further on the core enablers for effective synthesis, three essential prerequisite elements…
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The Magic of Synthesis
When I think about what skills I rely on every day to build a startup, synthesis routinely tops the list. The need to integrate many pieces of information into a coherent whole that enables you to plan, tell a compelling story, and manage risks is a never-ending need that is entirely dependent on this skill.
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Company Building with the Lord
Each entrepreneur brings themselves to the practice of company building, which includes their beliefs about themselves and their place in the world as a foundation on which to build. For some, this spiritual strength sustains us through the trials, tribulations, and sometimes triumphs that inevitably emerge along the journey.
