Simply Broken - Frameworks for founders and leaders

4 Ways to Guide Your Employees Toward Empowered Decisions

January 5, 2017

Originally published on Entrepreneur Magazine. Traditional top-down management can create a single point of failure within each department: a middle manager held accountable for his team's projects and products. According to…

How One-Person Businesses Will Transform Corporate America

November 28, 2016

Not so long ago, taking a trip to New York City meant riding around in yellow taxis and staying at the Plaza Hotel. Now, for many, it means staying at…

Top-Down Management Structures Are Crumbling– How Will You Adapt?

September 30, 2016

Originally published on CEO.com. Not long ago, employees succeeded in the workplace by producing consistent, high-quality work as specifically directed by their managers. Once promoted into middle management, however, their…

3 organizational structure changes to strengthen your startup’s tech team

July 5, 2016

Originally published on Ventureburn. Hiring experienced technologists is difficult. Many are happy in their current positions, and the others are inundated with offers. With software developer employment projected to…

No Secrets: Why Honest, Frequent Feedback Is The Key To Your Culture

July 5, 2016

Originally published on Young Upstarts. Culture will make or break your startup. You can’t just create a company culture, but you can direct it in the way you develop leaders,…

Deliver. Automate. Fail Fast. Succeed.

July 5, 2016

Originally published on Business2Community. Software development and startup companies have an almost endless list of things to do. Even if they complete all of their tasks, there’s no guaranteed formula…

Tracking what students grasp

December 11, 2014

Originally published on MIT News by Rob Matheson December 11, 2014 Tracking what students grasp Socrative mobile quiz app saves teachers time and offers real-time data on student comprehension of material. As…

Improve your startup strategy by focusing on 3 time-horizons

July 22, 2013

Building a strategy is similar to solving a very complicated problem. The computer science approach to this is break the big problem into smaller ones, but that is not a…

For developers: How to build a business model and prove your idea is awesome in 10 minutes

October 23, 2011

So you have an awesome idea and you know it’s going to make a lot of money, but for some reason not everybody believes you. Well, first of all, that…

Build a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) by focusing on User Stories NOT features

July 18, 2011

When building a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) the goal is to build something as quickly as possible, release it to the world and get feedback. Then improve and continue building.…