by John Macdonald | Apr 4, 2025 | The250
Complexity causes chaos. And chaos stalls progress. Yet, complexity is always conserved. You can’t eliminate the complexity, but can you tame it? Can you bring some order to the chaos? As a leader, your job is to figure that out. Can you eliminate some...
by John Macdonald | Apr 3, 2025 | The250
“…a lot of work is really boring and not particularly meaningful. If we acknowledge that, we can turn our attention to improving the human experience of work.”- Ethan Mollick, Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI This is one of the...
by John Macdonald | Apr 2, 2025 | The250
My co-founding team and I have been working together for almost 10 years. We’re high-functioning, very good at what we do, individually excellent, and our whole is greater than the sum of the parts. We have solved some very hard engineering problems. ...
by John Macdonald | Apr 1, 2025 | The250
“We should do it this way, and here’s why.” “No, we should do it this way, and here’s why.” Then, it goes back and forth or round and round. The most underrated characteristic of a high-functioning, creative, A-player team is...
by John Macdonald | Mar 31, 2025 | The250
The horse has left the barn.That ship has sailed.The genie’s out of the bottle.You can’t unring the bell.The train has left the station. Some decisions or actions are one-way. Once you’ve said it or done it, there’s no going back, or at least...
