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what are your key progress indicators?
November 28, 2022
Here we are at the end of another tumultuous year, and work inboxes are filling up with the usual exhortations to assess the past year’s KPIs and think ahead to set operationally significant KPIs for the year to come. This year, I encourage you to step up from the mundane by changing your working definition of KPIs from the ubiquitous key performance indicators to key progress indicators, and see how that raises your perspective and expectations.
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rising above the abysmal tyranny of “best practices”
September 30, 2022
Recently I’ve had a recurring conversation with several people about the ways in which our acceptance and use of language propagates the very patterns and dynamics we are working to break.
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I’ll have what she’s having
August 17, 2022
Do you sometimes feel like you’re having the same conversation? These are important exchanges that for various reasons aren’t happening elsewhere. So I don’t mind serving as the prompter or catalyst to spark them up.
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something hopeful
July 25, 2022
As a matter of practice, and as an attempt at metal hygiene, I generally try to stay off email and digital media on weekends. Since I often end the week with unread messages and content, that means the new week begins with a backward glance over the previous few days.
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Three Steps
June 15, 2022
Given the work we do here at Reinventure — investing exclusively in US-based companies led and controlled by BIPOC and/or female founders — I am often asked questions about why investors should care about inclusive manager or founder selection, or what to do about the pipeline problem / absence of data / lack of deal flow, or how to go about implementing JEDI principles in an organization or portfolio.
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In this very moment
May 24, 2022
How are you, dear reader? No, I mean it: how are you? How are you holding up in this hideous moment?
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Endings and beginnings
April 18, 2022
As I type this, it’s the afternoon of Good Friday here on the eastern seaboard of the US, Passover is about to begin, and we are deep in Ramadan. April is chock full of other spiritually significant observances as well. Alongside religious holidays, secular rites of spring are being celebrated in the northern hemisphere, autumnal festivities are being savored in the southern hemisphere, Earth Day is fast approaching, and all are occurring amid disasters and atrocities of every description the world over.
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Graduating from externalities, ending the grift
February 28, 2022
Faced with the 21st century maelstrom of existential consequences of that grift, we have a simple choice: do we reshape the system, or do we just play along?
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It’s hopeless.
January 17, 2022
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Climate change is too big, there’s nothing I can do about it, so why bother? Our political system is so polarized, so vicious, and so corrupted no honest person could possibly make a difference...
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Leading and lagging indicators
December 20, 2021
Here we are at the end of another fraught year, and it seems every print, broadcast, and electronic medium is brimful of listicles and commentaries attempting to make sense of the past 12 months or predict the shape of the next 12 months.
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How do you define success?
October 14, 2021
Whenever I meet a founder team, I always ask about their objectives and motivations.
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It’s an epic blockbuster!
August 18, 2021
As if 2020 wasn’t heavy enough, 2021 seems determined to surpass it in both the number and severity of calamities. This August, as we head into late summer and yet another pandemic wave, we can all use a little levity. So in the spirit of summer break and the grand tradition of summer blockbusters, this post departs from our usual blog format.