by John Macdonald | Apr 9, 2025 | The250
Every interaction you have is some sort of pitch. How’s your pitch deck? Most pitches fail. Not because your idea is weak or your deck isn’t slick, but because the language is wrong. You’re fluent in you. Your product, your...
by John Macdonald | Apr 8, 2025 | The250
You’ve done it. We’ve all done it. “Don’t touch the hot stove!” Yet, sometimes, you do it anyway. It’s not rational. It’s not you thinking it through (although you may convince yourself you are). You know, deep down or even on...
by John Macdonald | Apr 7, 2025 | The250
That’s where you start. If you don’t know or don’t know how to address the question of “why would they care,” you won’t get anywhere. This is the main...
by John Macdonald | Apr 6, 2025 | The250
Ship it fast. Break it fast. Fix it fast. In many situations, that’s my mantra. But speed amplifies trajectory. If your trajectory is wrong, getting there faster may not help. Automating tasks that don’t need doing doesn’t help. Optimizing a...
by John Macdonald | Apr 5, 2025 | The250
Life is our journey between inflection points. You’re moseying along on a path. Bam! An inflection point happens, and that starts you on a new path. You planned some of these inflections, foreseen some others, and were blindsided by several. But the journey...
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...
