The User Manual for Founder Psychology
Content that helps founders scale.
The Three Types of Feedback
Founders only need to learn how to give three types of feedback to become a superhuman manager: Performance Feedback, Relationship Feedback, and Culture Feedback
How to Implement Effective 1:1s
Meeting with your direct reports should be some of the highest-leverage time you spend with your team each week. Here’s how to launch 1:1s for the first time.
The Founder Sync
Founders often mistake their bad relationship habits for a bad relationship. The Founder Sync is regular, protected time when founders can strengthen their strategy and their relationship.
Delegating
Delegating is a knowledge transfer that allows you to step away from work and build trust in your team.
Guide to Performance Feedback
Giving feedback is one of the core tools in every founder’s toolbox. Founders typically need to start practicing this skill as soon as they’ve started working with a cofounder.
Time Audit
This exercise is helpful for founders when they’re in The Pinch - when there is simply too much for any single human to do under the constraints of physical time.
Processing Your Emotions is a Competitive Advantage
Every startup founder feels a huge volume of emotions. Learning to process your emotions - relating to them as data and incorporating them into your workflow - is a competitive advantage.
What It Means to Scale Yourself
Your startup will challenge you to to grow in three dimensions simultaneously: scale your psychology, scale your relationships, scale process and culture.