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Eric Barker advises asking the titular question as a way of assessing whether or not a company is in a state of denial: http://bit.ly/15RCfuP Yet denial isn’t the only reason I can think of for why post-meeting conversations might be more honest than the ones in the meeting. Here are a few other reasons I … Continue reading “Are the conversations after a meeting a lot more honest than the ones in a meeting?”
I loved this recent blog post from Steve Blank because it spoke to one of my main problems: How to decide whom to meet with: http://bit.ly/14WtJxt “The meeting requests that now jump to the top of my list are the few, very smart entrepreneurs who say, “I’d like to have coffee to bounce an idea … Continue reading If You Want To Learn From Someone, Offer To Teach Them
My friend Jack Herrick told me about an interesting technique he uses to test the character of the people he meets with. The WikiHow offices are in a nice house just outside downtown Palo Alto. When he meets people in Palo Alto, he skateboards to the meeting and brings the skateboard in with him. “If … Continue reading The Skateboard Test