In this issue:

• My interview with Blake Janover
• Keeping your company's culture as you scale
• Winning Long-Term Games (+audiobook)
• 9others dinners

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Podcast with Blake Janover

I recently published my interview with Blake Janover (Janover Inc. CEO). We discuss the role of the CEO, education, and advice for young, ambitious people.

It's also available on Spotify and major podcast apps. More on my podcast page.

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Keeping your company culture as you scale

One of the challenges of fast-growing companies is to keep their culture as they scale.

Three quick tips include:

• Explain your decisions as much as possible – big and small ones. The more you do, the more you will teach your people how to think like you: you will scale your thinking.
• Define your values and priorities in terms of behaviors. Then, ensure every role has a list of concrete and specific behaviors aligned with your culture. If you don't do this, it's like hoping that passing down culture through a game of broken phones works (it doesn't). You don't have to come up with the lists of behaviors yourself, but you have to review them yourself. Don't delegate the latter to HR.
• Once a month, collect one anecdote of one of your employees doing something very aligned or very misaligned with your culture. Share it company-wide (making it anonymous if it's something negative), adding your comments about what the desired behavior is and why. Ensure your language remains concrete and down-to-earth, as if you spoke face-to-face with your lowest-level employee.

These were just three quick tips I selected amongst those that can fit a short newsletter such as this one. Of course, there's much more to say and more complex steps to take.

I've been doing a lot of work on this over the years, helping companies of all sizes, from small family businesses to multinationals with more than 5k employees, preserve and/or design their culture as they hire and grow to the next stage.

I'm considering running a paying workshop on the topic. If you are interested in joining, please reply to this email, and I will add you to the waitlist. If you have specific time constraints or time zones, please mention them in your reply.

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Winning Long-Term Games (+ audiobook)

Last week, I published my latest book.

I'm overwhelmed by how good the first reviews were!

You can find the book on Amazon, on my website, Apple/Google Books, Barnes & Noble, and some major retailers.

There's also an audiobook version! You can find it here. (The audio quality is good but not great – though much better than the one of Ergodicity's audiobook. Make sure you read the notes and/or download the sample before buying it. As you might know, Audible isn't available to Italian authors, nor are many similar platforms, so I had to find alternative solutions. If/when Audible becomes available to me, I might consider investing in better production quality. For the moment, it was this or nothing.)

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9others

I've recently discovered an event called 9others, a dinner for entrepreneurs where, instead of having the usual conversation, participants take turns to share what keeps them up at night, seeking feedback from the audience, with the rule that only one conversation can occur at a time. I haven't been able to join one such dinner yet, but I loved the concept so much that I thought it was worth sharing.

By the way, I can't help but wonder how much more constructive many other types of conversations would be if they were held using similar rules.

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