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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 18 | AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 19 | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 20 | OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 21 | SOFTWARE. 22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Leadership 2 | 3 | Hey I'm Chiedo, 👋 4 | 5 | I'm motivated by challenges, learning, relationships, and winning. 6 | 7 | I've got to be aligned and excited about the mission, the vision, and the brand. 8 | 9 | And it's got to be good for humanity. 10 | 11 | Selling snake oil? 👎 Selling vegetables? 👍 12 | 13 | ## Super powers 14 | 15 | Moving fast ⚡️, being unusually organized 🗂️, and generating energy 🔋 16 | 17 | ## My passions 18 | 19 | - Time with family 20 | - Exercise (But the kind you do in your thirties) 21 | - Cooking 22 | - Hosting refugee dinners and welcoming refugees to Harrisonburg with friends from church 23 | - Watching musicals and choreography, Anime (Naruto, My Hero Academia, etc.), Marvel (less recently), Star Trek, and Star Wars 24 | - Studying and discussing tech, startups, innovation, history, finance, economics, governments, philosophy, and business. 25 | - Advising, ideating, launching, and investing in startups 26 | 27 | ## Strong opinions I hold 28 | 29 | - Org charts answer the question "who do I report to" but cross-functional squads answer the question "who is on my team" 30 | - Meetings should be deeply engaging and if they are not they should have been an async 31 | - It's better to be clear and uncertain than to be unclear 32 | - If the team isn't aligned on what the most important goal is, the team isn't functioning like a team 33 | - One person is the final decision maker (after consulting relevant parties) and who that person is needs to be clear 34 | 35 | ## My default leadership style 36 | 37 | - The whole person first 38 | - Being hands-off / high trust by default 39 | - Having strong opinions that are weakly held 40 | - Morpheus to the people who report to me, not Neo 41 | 42 | ## What I Expect from Team Members 43 | 44 | - Maintaining a high tempo (schedule the follow up meeting tomorrow not next week) 45 | - Reducing scope 46 | - Shipping usable progress often 47 | - Holding peers accountable 48 | - Writing things down (shared context and learning!) 49 | 50 | ## Favorite Books, Reading, and More! 51 | 52 | ### People 53 | 54 | - Built to Last by James Collins 55 | - Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg 56 | - Deep Work by Cal Newport 57 | - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni 58 | - First, Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham 59 | - Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 60 | 61 | ### Strategy 62 | 63 | - 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer 64 | - Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter 65 | 66 | ### Organization Design 67 | 68 | - The Modern Firm by John Roberts 69 | - The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander 70 | - Team Topologies by Manuel Pais 71 | 72 | ### Process 73 | 74 | - The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 75 | - Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren 76 | - Making Work Visible by Dominica DeGrandis 77 | - Agile estimating and planning by Mike Cohn 78 | - Shape Up by Ryan Singer 79 | 80 | ### Sales and Marketing 81 | 82 | - Marketing Strategy by Reforge 83 | - The Sales Learning Curve by Mark Leslie and Charles A. Holloway 84 | - Building a Storybrand by Donald Miller 85 | - $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi 86 | 87 | ### Growth 88 | 89 | - Growth Series by Reforge 90 | - Growth Marketing by Reforge 91 | - Growth Leadership by Reforge 92 | - Avanced Growth Strategy by Reforge 93 | - Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis 94 | - Retention and Engagement by Reforge 95 | - Experimentation and Testing by Reforge 96 | - Product-Led Growth by Reforge 97 | - Traction by Gabriel Weinberg 98 | - Marketing Technology by Reforge 99 | - The Growth Handbook by Intercom 100 | 101 | ### GTM 102 | 103 | - Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore 104 | - MOVE by Sangram Vajre 105 | - Onboarding Matters by Donna Webber 106 | 107 | ### Product 108 | 109 | - Finding Product/Market Fit by Reforge 110 | - The Lean Startup by Eric Ries 111 | - User Insights for Product Decisions by Reforge 112 | - The Customer driven playbook by Travis Lowdermilk 113 | - A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander 114 | - Monetizing Innovation by Georg Tacke Madhavan Ramanujam 115 | 116 | ### Business 117 | 118 | - Rocket Fuel by Gino Wikcman 119 | - The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni 120 | 121 | ## Contact me 122 | 123 | - [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/chiedo) 124 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------