The Leadership Team (aka Team ONE) is collectively responsible and accountable for building a healthy, high-performing company.

We must remember that what we say "no" to and are willing to walk away from is just as important as what we run towards.

As a leader, we are pulled in many different directions with never-ending distractions that make it very difficult to step back, think about our business, and revisit our “WHY.”

As the leader of your company (or team), there is almost nothing more important you'll do than determining who you invite to join your team.

Ted Lasso was great for its entertainment value, but Ted is much more than a clueless, out-of-place foreigner. He’s also an endearing, caring, humorous leader with an approach worth emulating (with your own style of course).

“Nowhere is the value of focus as clear as in a single-product company fighting for its life against less-focused competitors embedded in large conglomerates with many cross-cutting agendas and tradeoffs.”

Helpful reminders on the fundamentals of strategy from some of the best in the game.

"The first 150 hires are your cultural co-founders. It's up to you, the founder, to get every one right."

- Reid Hoffman, Co-founder of LinkedIn

You can't have healthy companies without healthy teams and you can't have healthy teams without healthy leaders.

Being a CEO of an early-stage growth company is an exercise in continuous learning. Just when you start to feel like you've figured it out, you'll have a new skill to learn...how to manage your board.

“Arrogance is ignorance plus conviction. While humility is a permeable filter that absorbs life experience and converts it into knowledge and wisdom, arrogance is a rubber shield that life experience simply bounces off of.” (Tim Urban)

If something is murky to leaders, then it is pitch black to the masses. It’s our responsibility as leaders to shine a bright light on the facts and the path forward, which means one of our primary goals must be clarity.

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.” (Peter Drucker)

During some brief moments of clarity over the past few days, I’ve been reminded of Stephen Covey’s “circle of concern and circle of influence” concept from his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

SaaS products are never “done.” They are always evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of their customers. In fact, that’s one of the key value propositions of SaaS…your customers pay a subscription fee and not only get the product as it is today but also reap the benefits of ongoing enhancements and innovation.

“An entrepreneur cannot ‘diversify’ herself: you cannot run dozens of companies at the same time and then hope that one of them works out well.” (Peter Thiel)