What does “great” look like?
One of the biggest challenges for first-time founders with little work experience is that they don’t always know what “great” looks like in every area required to build and run a successful business. Understanding “great” is one of the single most important levers to push your team to greatness, hire the best people possible for […]
Focus your board meetings on the future, not the past
What do your board meetings look like? Do investors focus on their BlackBerries and iPhones while the CEO plods through every slide in the deck? I’ve sat through (and run) more board meetings than I can remember. And the truth is, most board meetings aren’t as effective as they should be. When it comes to […]
Advisors
At a mentoring session at GROW I was asked about advisors and what entrepreneurs had to keep in mind when forming an advisory board. Here are a few quick tips: You want to focus on few but really engaged advisors – having 2-3 people that can help you on a weekly basis is much more […]
Best practices for board meetings
Chris Fralic‘s tweet about a board meeting best practice this morning got me thinking that this was something I wanted to write about for some time. I currently sit on 12 boards and have therefore seen my fair share of board meetings – most of them were really productive, some of them highly unproductive. Here […]
Joining the Communicate.com board
Vancouver-based Communicate.com announced today that I will be joining their board effective immediately. Since taking over as CEO and Chairman a few months ago, Geoff Hampson (who is also my business partner in Techvibes.com) has assembled a really strong management team led by Jonathan Ehrlich (one of the digital media people to watch in BC […]