| Readers’ top 3 newsletters favourite 🌟 | I write my newsletter with one goal in mind🎯: to provide you with practical, actionable advice that you can implement in your journey of building your start-up to scale. | Many readers revisit my past newsletters and use them as reference material. | If you’re browsing through archives, let me point you towards the 🌟top 3 favourites that are most read and shared by your fellow readers: | | 😣 Exec underperforming? 360 Feedback is NOT your answer | Founder question: My exec isn't performing. It's been ongoing for a while and I'm feeling stuck on what to do next. I'm considering running a 360 Feedback survey. What would you advise in this situation? | 🛞 360 Feedback is broken: here’s one alternative | While the concept of 360 Feedback sounds fantastic, the reality is a bit messier. Relying on a once-a-year (biased!) review fails to capture the holistic ongoing journey of individual performance and growth. What we need is a more organic, ongoing approach. | And no, I'm not suggesting we simply take the same flawed 360 Feedback method and turn it into a quarterly process; that would just multiply the problem by 4! | Continue reading… | | | 🎯OKRs: No replacement for decision, communication or discipline | Founder question: Are OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) worth the effort? We invest so much time in the process of coordinating, drafting, and presenting our OKRs at the end of each quarter. However, it seems that after the initial planning phase, we tend to lose sight of our OKRs for the remainder of the quarter, and by the end of the quarter, we often find that we haven't achieved what we originally set out to do - and the whole cycle repeats itself for the next quarter! What are we not doing right? | 💡 ‘I’ is the missing letter in OKRs | Many times when I was working in start-ups, I heard people saying - “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do with OKRs.” | I disagree. | Continue reading… | | | 🔢 Performance ratings: A tool to judge or a tool to grow? | Founder question: After exploring numerous articles and engaging in numerous conversations about performance ratings, I now find myself at a crossroads and would like to know your thoughts. Should we implement performance ratings? | 😱 My Founder rated me 2 out of 10 | "That was a 2 out of 10 of what I expect of you," my Founder told me during my first month on the job. Surprisingly, instead of sending shivers down my spine, this memory brings a warm smile to my face - no, I haven't lost my marbles! 😅 | Continue reading… | | | If you have a personal favourite, I would love to hear about it! Feel free to drop me a line anytime! | Till next time! 👋 |
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